Configure backup storage

Depending on your environment, you can save your YugabyteDB universe data to a variety of storage solutions.

Amazon S3

You can configure Amazon S3 as your backup target as follows:

1. Navigate to Configs > Backup > amazon S3.

2. Enter values for Access Key and Access Secret fields.

   You may use Identity Access Management (IAM).

3. Enter values for the S3 Bucket and S3 Bucket Host Base fields.

   For information on how to obtain AWS credentials, see Understanding and getting your AWS credentials.

4. Click Save.

You can configure access control for the S3 bucket as follows:

• Provide the required access control list (ACL), and then define List, Write permissions to access Objects, as well as Read, Write permissions for the bucket, as shown in the following illustration:
  
  
• Create Bucket policy to enable access to the objects stored in the bucket.

Network File Share

You can configure Network File Share (NFS) as your backup target as follows:

1. Navigate to Configs > Backup > NFS.
2. Complete the NFS Storage Path field by entering /backup or another directory that provides read, write, and access permissions to the SSH user of the Yugabyte Platform instance.
3. Click Save.

Google Cloud Storage

You can configure Google Cloud Storage (GCS) as your backup target as follows:

1. Navigate to Configs > Backup > GCS.

2. Complete GCS Bucket and GCS Credentials fields.

   For information on how to obtain GCS credentials, see Cloud Storage authentication.

3. Click Save.

You can configure access control for the S3 bucket as follows:

• Provide the required access control list (ACL) and set it as either uniform or fine-grained (for object-level access).
• Add permissions, such as roles and members.

Microsoft Azure

You can configure Azure as your backup target as follows:

1. Create a storage account in Azure as follows:

   
   
   • Navigate to Portal > Storage Account and click Add (+).
   • Complete the mandatory fields, such as Resource group, Storage account name, and Location, as per the following illustration:
   
   

   

2. Create a blob container as follows:

   
   
   • Open the storage account (for example, storagetestazure, as shown in the following illustration).
   • Navigate to Blob service > Containers > + Container and then click Create.
   
   

   

3. Obtain the container URL by navigating to Container > Properties, as shown in the following illustration:
   

   
   

   

4. Generate an SAS Token as follows:

   
   
   • Navigate to Storage account > Shared access signature, as shown in the following illustration.
   • Under Allowed resource types, select Container and Object.
   • Click Generate SAS and connection string and copy the SAS token. Note that the token should start with ?sv=.
   
   

   

5. On your Yugabyte Platform instance, provide the container URL and SAS token for creating a backup, as follows:

   
   
   • Navigate to Configs > Backup > Azure.
   • Enter values for the Container URL and SAS Token fields, as shown in the following illustration, and then click Save.