Amazon Web Services for snapshot storage

Commvault Cloud supports Amazon Web Services (Amazon EBS volume snapshots, stored in Amazon S3) for snapshot storage.

Support

Workloads

The following workloads are supported:

  • Amazon EC2

  • Db2

  • MongoDB

  • MySQL

  • Oracle

  • PostgreSQL

  • SAP HANA

  • SQL Server

  • SQL Server

  • Sybase

  • Linux file system

  • Windows file system

Devices

The following devices are supported:

  • NVMe

  • XEN

Operating systems

The following OSs are supported:

  • Linux

  • Windows Server

Snapshot behavior

When you use AWS as snapshot storage, Commvault Cloud configures snapshot behavior for each AWS workload (such as Amazon EC2) when you configure backups for the workload.

Snapshot names

EBS

  • Naming convention: EBS snaps don't have names. They have only IDs.

  • Example: snap-0a1b033b1430b3b05

RDS

  • Naming convention: InstanceName-Region-Timestamp

    • Instance name: The RDS or EBS instance name.

    • Region: The geographical region where the snapshot is created.

    • Timestamp: The time the snapshot was created.

  • Example: Orcl-us-east-1-20170425t204551z

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