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Backing Up Your Volumes
By using Storage Gateway, you can help protect your on-premises business applications that use Storage Gateway volumes for cloud-backed storage. You can back up your on-premises Storage Gateway volumes using the native snapshot scheduler in Storage Gateway or Amazon Backup. In both cases, Storage Gateway volume backups are stored as Amazon EBS snapshots in Amazon Web Services.
Using Storage Gateway to Back Up Your Volumes
You can use the Storage Gateway Management Console to back up your volumes by taking Amazon EBS snapshots and storing the snapshots in Amazon Web Services. You can either take a one-time snapshot or set up a snapshot schedule that is managed by Storage Gateway. You can later restore the snapshot to a new volume by using the Storage Gateway console. For information about how to back up and manage your backup from the Storage Gateway, see the following topics:
Using Amazon Backup to Back Up Your Volumes
Amazon Backup is a centralized backup service that makes it easy and cost-effective for you to back up your application data across Amazon services in both the Amazon Web Services Cloud and on-premises. Doing this helps you meet your business and regulatory backup compliance requirements. Amazon Backup makes protecting your Amazon storage volumes, databases, and file systems simple by providing a central place where you can do the following:
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Configure and audit the Amazon resources that you want to back up.
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Automate backup scheduling.
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Set retention policies.
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Monitor all recent backup and restore activity.
Because Storage Gateway integrates with Amazon Backup, it lets customers use Amazon Backup to back up on-premises business applications that use Storage Gateway volumes for cloud-backed storage. Amazon Backup supports backup and restore of both cached and stored volumes. For information about Amazon Backup, see the Amazon Backup documentation. For information about Amazon Backup, see What is Amazon Backup? in the Amazon Backup User Guide.
You can manage Storage Gateway volumes' backup and recovery operations with Amazon Backup and avoid the need to create custom scripts or manually manage point-in-time backups. With Amazon Backup, you can also monitor your on-premises volume backups alongside your in-cloud Amazon resources from a single Amazon Backup dashboard. You can use Amazon Backup to either create a one-time on-demand backup or define a backup plan that is managed in Amazon Backup.
Storage Gateway volume backups taken from Amazon Backup are stored in Amazon S3 as Amazon EBS snapshots. You can see the Storage Gateway volume backups from the Amazon Backup console or the Amazon EBS console.
You can easily restore Storage Gateway volumes that are managed through Amazon Backup to any on-premises gateway or in-cloud gateway. You can also restore such a volume to an Amazon EBS volume that you can use with Amazon EC2 instances.
Benefits of Using Amazon Backup to Back Up Storage Gateway Volumes
The benefits of using Amazon Backup to back up Storage Gateway volumes are that you can meet compliance requirements, avoid operational burden, and centralize backup management. Amazon Backup allows you to do the following:
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Set customizable scheduled backup policies that meet your backup requirements.
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Set backup retention and expiration rules so you no longer need to develop custom scripts or manually manage the point-in-time backups of your volumes.
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Manage and monitor backups across multiple gateways, and other Amazon resources from a central view.
To use Amazon Backup to create backups of your volumes
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Amazon Backup requires that you choose an Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that Amazon Backup consumes. You need to create this role because Amazon Backup doesn't create it for you. You also need to create a trust relationship between Amazon Backup and this IAM role. For information about how to do this, see the Amazon Backup User Guide. For information about how to do this, see Creating a Backup Plan in the Amazon Backup User Guide.
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Open the Storage Gateway console and choose Volumes from the navigation pane at left.
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For Actions, choose Create on-demand backup with Amazon Backup or Create Amazon backup plan.
If you want to create an on-demand backup of the Storage Gateway volume, choose Create on-demand backup with Amazon Backup. You are directed the Amazon Backup console.
If you want to create a new Amazon Backup plan, choose Create Amazon backup plan. You are directed to the Amazon Backup console.
On the Amazon Backup console, you can create a backup plan, assign a Storage Gateway volume to the backup plan, and create a backup. You can also do ongoing backup management tasks.
Finding and Restoring Your Volumes from Amazon Backup
You can find and restore your backup Storage Gateway volumes from the Amazon Backup console. For more information, see the Amazon Backup User Guide. For more information, see Recovery Points in the Amazon Backup User Guide.
To find and restore your volumes
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Open the Amazon Backup console and find the Storage Gateway volume backup that you want to restore. You can restore the Storage Gateway volume backup to an Amazon EBS volume or to a Storage Gateway volume. Choose the appropriate option for your restore requirements.
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For Restore type, choose to restore a stored or cached Storage Gateway volume and provide the required information:
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For a stored volume, provide the information for Gateway name, Disk ID, and iSCSI target name.
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For a cached volume, provide the information for Gateway name, Capacity, and iSCSI target name.
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Choose Restore resource to restore your volume.
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You can't use the Amazon EBS console to delete a snapshot that is created by Amazon Backup.