Getting Started with Snapshot Backup Operations with Amazon Web Service

To get started with snapshot backup operations with Amazon Web Services (AWS), review requirements and permissions, associate an AWS account with a client, and then configure a subclient for the agent to perform the backups and restores.

Step 1: Review Requirements and Permissions

Review the following system requirements and permissions needed for this solution:

• System Requirements

• System Requirements for Application Agent Clients

• IAM Policies for Protecting AWS Services

Step 2: Associate the AWS Account with a Commvault Client

1. Create a client.

   Data to back up	Type of client to create	More information
   Amazon EC2 Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Amazon Redshift Amazon DocumentDB	VSA	Create an Amazon Client
   DB2	DB2	DB2
   Microsoft SQL Server	Microsoft SQL Server	Microsoft SQL Server
   MongoDB	MongoDB	MongoDB
   MySQL	MySQL	MySQL
   Oracle	Oracle	Oracle
   SAP HANA	SAP HANA	SAP HANA
   UNIX file system	File system	UNIX File System

2. For application agents, depending on the authentication method of the AWS account, do the following:

3. If the authentication for the AWS account includes the IAM role with the required permissions on the EC2 instance, then you do not need to add the array in Array Management. When you configure a subclient, you can select the AWS snapshot engine, and the subclient can run snapshot backup operations of the array AWS-DefaultUseIAMRoleArray.

4. If the authentication method for the AWS account uses a secret key, do the following:

   1. Add Amazon in Array Management.

   2. Configure the additional setting sAmazonArray.

Step 3: Configure Snapshot Backups in the Subclient

To configure snapshot backups in the subclient, see the information for the agent that you are going to deploy:

• DB2

• Microsoft SQL Server

• MongoDB

• MySQL

• Oracle

• SAP HANA

• UNIX File System

• Virtual Server for Amazon