Amazon S3

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Note that IBM® Storage Protect for Cloud will store your backup data to the S3 Standard storage class automatically. You can move the backup data from S3 Standard to S3 Standard-IA, S3 One Zone-IA, or S3 Intelligent-Tiering, and IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Google Workspace can restore the backup data of those storage classes. However, it is not recommended to activate the archive access tier if you are using S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Activating the archive access tier will cause data object files that have not yet been accessed for 90 days to be archived, and IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Google Workspace cannot access the archived data in your Amazon S3 storage.

Procedure

Follow the instructions below:
  1. Storage type – Select Amazon S3 from the drop-down list.
  2. Bucket name – Enter a name for the bucket you want to access or create.
  3. Access key ID – Enter the corresponding access key ID to access the specified bucket. You can view the access key ID from your AWS account.
  4. Secret access key – Enter the corresponding secret key ID to access the specified bucket. You can view the secret key ID from your AWS account.
  5. Storage region – Select the storage region of this bucket from the drop-down list.
  6. Advanced – If you want to configure extended parameters, select the Advanced option. Refer to the instructions below to configure Extended parameters, and note that if you have multiple parameters to enter, use the semicolon (;) to separate the parameters.
    • RetryCount – Customize the reconnection times after the network connection is interrupted. Enter any positive integer from 0 to 2147483646. For example, RetryCount=6 represents when the network connection is interrupted, and it can reconnect at most 6 times.

      If you do not configure this parameter, the value is 6 by default.

    • RetryMode – Customize the retry mode for the requests not being completed successfully. If this parameter is not configured or configured incorrectly, the Legacy will be applied as the default value. You can also set the value to Standard or Adaptive. Standard represents the standardized request retry strategy which is consistent across all SDKs; Adaptive represents an experimental request retry strategy that builds on the Standard strategy and introduces congestion control through client-side rate limiting.
  7. Click Save to save the custom storage location.