Configuration for copying or archiving data to cloud

If you are planning to copy or archive IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus data to cloud storage for long-term retention or for snapshot storage, you must configure secondary storage.

Tasks for configuring cloud storage

You must configure IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for backup and restore operations to cloud storage as shown in Table 1.

User scenario	Purpose	Steps
Store deduplicated data and non-deduplicated data in a cloud-container storage pool and restore the data as required.	Copy data to cloud storage. In the first copy operation, a full backup copy is created. Subsequent copies are incremental.	Choose one of the following providers: Adding Amazon S3 Object Storage Adding IBM Cloud Object Storage as a backup storage provider Adding Microsoft Azure cloud storage as a backup storage provider Adding S3 compatible object storage