AWS Backup Now Supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

If you’re a long-time reader of this weblog, you already know that I categorize some posts as “chocolate and peanut butter” in homage to an historical (1970 or so) sequence of TV commercials for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. As we speak, I’m joyful to convey you the newest such submit, combining AWS Backup and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Earlier than I dive into the specifics, let’s evaluate every service:

AWS Backup lets you automate and centrally handle your backups (learn my submit, AWS Backup – Automate and Centrally Handle Your Backups, for an in depth look). After you create policy-driven plans, you’ll be able to monitor the standing of on-going backups, confirm compliance, and discover/restore backups, all from a central console. We launched in 2019 with assist for Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon EFS file methods, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes. After that, we added assist for EC2 situations, Amazon Aurora clusters, Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon FSx for Window File Server file methods, Amazon Neptune databases, VMware workloads, Amazon DocumentDB clusters, and Amazon S3.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP offers you the options, efficiency, and APIs of NetApp ONTAP file methods with the agility, scalability, safety, and resiliency of AWS (once more, learn my submit, New – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to be taught extra). ONTAP is an enterprise knowledge administration product that’s designed to offer high-performance storage appropriate to be used with Oracle, SAP, VMware, Microsoft SQL Server, and so forth. Every file system helps multi-protocol entry and may scale as much as 176 PiB, together with inline knowledge compression, deduplication, compaction, skinny provisioning, replication, and point-in-time cloning. We launched with a multi-AZ deployment kind, and launched a single-AZ deployment kind earlier this 12 months.

Chocolate and Peanut Butter
AWS Backup now helps Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file methods. The entire present AWS Backup options apply, and you may add this assist to an present backup plan or you’ll be able to create a brand new one.

Suppose I’ve a few ONTAP file methods:

I am going to the AWS Backup Console and click on Create Backup plan to get began:

I determine to Begin with a template, and select Day by day-Month-to-month-1yr-Retention, then click on Create plan:

Subsequent, I study the Useful resource assignments part of my plan and click on Assign assets:

I create a useful resource task (Jeff-ONTAP-Sources), and choose the FSx useful resource kind. I can depart the task as-is with a purpose to embody all of my Amazon FSx volumes within the task, or I can uncheck All file methods, after which select volumes on the file methods that I confirmed you earlier:

I evaluate all of my selections, and click on Assign assets to proceed. My backups will likely be carried out in accord with the backup plan.

I may create an on-demand backup. To do that, I go to the Protected assets web page and click on Create on-demand backup:

I select a quantity, set a one week retention interval for my on-demand backup, and click on Create on-demand backup:

The backup job begins inside seconds, and is seen on the Backup jobs web page:

After the job completes I can study the vault and see my backup. Then I can choose it and select Restore from the Actions menu:

To revive the backup, I select one of many file methods from it, enter a brand new quantity identify, and click on Restore backup.

Additionally of Curiosity
We lately launched two new options for AWS Backup that you could be discover useful. Each options can now be used at the side of Amazon FSx for ONTAP:

AWS Backup Audit Supervisor – You should use this function to watch and consider the compliance standing of your backups. This might help you to satisfy enterprise and regulatory necessities, and allows you to generate experiences that you should utilize to reveal compliance to auditors and regulators. To be taught extra, learn Monitor, Consider, and Reveal Backup Compliance with AWS Backup Audit Supervisor.

AWS Backup Vault Lock – This function permits you to forestall your backups from being by accident or maliciously deleted, and in addition enhances safety towards ransomware. You should use this function to make chosen backup values WORM (write-once-read-many) compliant. After you have finished this, the backups within the vault can’t be modified manually. You can even set minimal and most retention intervals for every vault. To be taught extra, learn Improve the safety posture of your backups with AWS Backup Vault Lock.

Out there Now
This new function is on the market now and you can begin utilizing it immediately in all areas the place AWS Backup and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP can be found.

— Jeff;