AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Backing Up Your Volumes
• Automate backup scheduling.
• Set retention policies.
• Monitor all recent backup and restore activity.
Because Storage Gateway integrates with AWS Backup, it enables customers to use AWS Backup to back
up on-premises business applications that use Storage Gateway volumes for cloud-backed storage.
AWS Backup supports backup and restore of both cached and stored volumes. For information about
AWS Backup, see the AWS Backup documentation. For information about AWS Backup, see
in the
AWS Backup User Guide
.
You can manage Storage Gateway volumes' backup and recovery operations with AWS Backup and avoid
the need to create custom scripts or manually manage point-in-time backups. With AWS Backup, you
can also monitor your on-premises volume backups alongside your in-cloud AWS resources from a single
AWS Backup dashboard. You can use AWS Backup to either create a one-time on-demand backup or
define a backup plan that is managed in AWS Backup.
Storage Gateway volume backups taken from AWS Backup are stored in Amazon S3 as Amazon EBS
snapshots. You can see the Storage Gateway volume backups from the AWS Backup console or the
Amazon EBS console.
You can easily restore Storage Gateway volumes that are managed through AWS Backup to any on-
premises gateway or in-cloud gateway. You can also restore such a volume to an Amazon EBS volume
that you can use with Amazon EC2 instances.
Benefits of Using AWS Backup to Back Up Storage Gateway Volumes
The benefits of using AWS Backup to back up Storage Gateway volumes are that you can meet
compliance requirements, avoid operational burden, and centralize backup management. AWS Backup
enables you to do the following:
• Set customizable scheduled backup policies that meet your backup requirements.
• Set backup retention and expiration rules so you no longer need to develop custom scripts or manually
manage the point-in-time backups of your volumes.
• Manage and monitor backups across multiple gateways, and other AWS resources from a central view.
To use AWS Backup to create backups of your volumes
Note
AWS Backup requires that you choose an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that
AWS Backup consumes. You need to create this role because AWS Backup doesn't create it for
you. You also need to create a trust relationship between AWS Backup and this IAM role. For
information about how to do this, see the
AWS Backup User Guide
. For information about how to
do this, see
AWS Backup User Guide
.
1. Open the Storage Gateway console and choose
Volumes
from the navigation pane at left.
2. For
Actions
, choose
Create on-demand backup with AWS Backup
or
Create AWS backup plan
.
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