AWS Backup requirement

Hey !

One of our clients is looking for an other than AWS backup and wanted to know his options. He has a small network of about 150 Servers on EC2 and the works.

Any suggestions !

Cheers

Chanakya

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jibbajabba

Let me google that for you ... It seems that this provider is one of the few ones supporting backups for whole EC2 instances.

http://www.n2ws.com

Depends what he wants to backup. File or VM level.

chanakyajupudi

I did google before posting. I am not looking for something that allows me to put backups on AWS. I want to be able to backup my AWS resources to another provider.

NightShade03

chanakyajupudi wrote: »

I did google before posting. I am not looking for something that allows me to put backups on AWS. I want to be able to backup my AWS resources to another provider.

What's the requirement for this? Why is the client insisting that they have backups outside of AWS (ie. compliance, paranoia, resiliency)?

darkerosxx

Am I wrong in suspecting you can just use any other backup provider at this point, or are you trying to back up the instances, themselves, to somewhere else?

chanakyajupudi

It's a compliance thing. I am looking for a solution that moves all the AWS backups from S3 to Azure or Google Cloud or any other. Backups on AWS will be done using Skeddly.

NightShade03

A bunch of thoughts here:

1) Skeddly charges per action...clearly I'm in the wrong business...
2) You really don't need to move backups into a different cloud, it's not only counter-intuitive, but it's not really how the "cloud" works.
3) If you did want to proceed anyway you'll need to script out the migration/movement of backups into another persons cloud...this introduces new security challenges like IAM, central point of management, etc.

Best practice would dictate to setup an S3 bucket in another region, along with some small EC2 instances in another region and use those as an HA backup solution.

chanakyajupudi

@NightShade03

What you said is absolutely right. This requirement has come from the customer asking that if all his data is with one provider what happens when the provider decides to do something against him or there is some kind of global disconnect. I understand there is no limit for paranoia !

There is a product available to do this for us. Cloud to Cloud Backup Functionality in CloudBerry Backup

Have not used it. Will be spending time over the weekend to see the associated side effects ! Security wise and data wise.

NightShade03

chanakyajupudi wrote: »

What you said is absolutely right. This requirement has come from the customer asking that if all his data is with one provider what happens when the provider decides to do something against him or there is some kind of global disconnect.

While I understand PITA clients...SLA contracts with cloud providers prevent them from "taking retribution" against customers. That statement just tells me the client has no clue about contract or risk management. Also if there is a global disconnect on the scale the client is referring too...I would imagine the cause of such an event will have much greater impact on a global scale that worrying about "backups" will be the least of everyone's concerns.

I get it though. It's a client. You have to appease them. Dumb clients just make my blood boil