Rapid Recovery Archiving to QoreStor S3 (4376223)

Rapid Recovery Archiving to QoreStor S3

Overview

Rapid Recovery includes an archiving feature for long term storage of backups. Archives can be created on-demand, or more commonly archives can be scheduled for automatic creation.
Rapid Recovery supports many different storage options for archiving, including:

• Local Disk
• CIFS Share
• S3 Cloud Storage
• Azure Cloud Storage

In this KB article, we'll be focusing on S3 storage for archives, specifically QoreStor S3.

Why QoreStor

With the myriad of storage options available from cloud vendors, why would a Rapid Recovery administrator choose QoreStor for archiving backups? Archiving Rapid Recovery backups to QoreStor, puts the user in control.

QoreStor is the secondary storage platform from Quest, purpose built for storing backup data.

• QoreStor provides S3 object containers as an archiving endpoint
• QoreStor supports S3 object locking to ensure archived data can't be tampered with or deleted by malicious ransomware
• QoreStor supports cloud tiering, for even longer-term archiving of backup data. With QoreStor located on-premise, the 3-2-1 rule can satisfied by ensuring a copy of backup data is located off-site.
• QoreStor runs anywhere, including your preferred hardware vendor's servers, cloud and hypervisors.
• QoreStor includes support for QorePortal, a no-cost SaaS web interface for managing all of your QoreStor instances in one place.
• User can choose to optimize archiving operation for cost, performance, location. Optimized for cost, users can place the archive repository on low cost SATA disks. Optimized for performance. repository and metadata can be located on any combination of flash storage, NVMe, SAS or SATA.
• Air-gapped, secure environments, without Internet access can utilize QoreStor on-premise for archiving. Multiple LAN-connected sites can even archive data to a single QoreStor instance to take advantage of Global Dedupe, saving on total cost and storage requirements.

Learn more about QoreStor at the product homepage .

Configuration

For a new Rapid Recovery Core server, install and configure according to the Rapid Recovery 6.9 Installation and Upgrade Guide , available on the support portal.

For a new QoreStor instance, install and configure QoreStor according to the QoreStor 7.4.0 Installation Guide , also available on the support portal.

Note: Ensure that during the installation of QoreStor, the S3 Object storage protocol is enabled. S3 Object storage is a front-end protocol and is required for Rapid Recovery archiving to QoreStor S3. Don't confuse this with QoreStor Object Direct backend storage, which should only be enabled for storing QoreStor repository itself on object storage.

Create the S3 Object Container on QoreStor

1. Login to QoreStor web administration UI
2. From the main Navigation menu at the left, click Containers
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3. At the top of the Containers dashboard, click Add Container
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4. In the Add Container Wizard, select "Object (S3 Compatible)" as the protocol
5. In the Name field, provide a name for the container being created. The container name will need to conform to QoreStor container naming rules: Container name must consist of a-z A-Z _- 0-9 characters and start with a letter
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6. Select the Storage Group for the Container, default is DefaultGroup
7. Click Next
8. Use the default setting for HTTPS, click Next
9. Click Finish

Create the S3 Bucket in the Object Container on QoreStor

1. On the containers page click Edit under the three dots next to the container just created
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2. Click Create bucket
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3. Create the bucket with Object Lock enabled, choose the Locking mode from the drop-down down and adjust the Locking duration
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4. On the same page, click Add user to configure the bucket credentials and assign a policy
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Create the Cloud Account In Rapid Recovery

1. Login to the Rapid Recovery Core administration UI
2. In the main navigation menu, at the upper left, click the 3 dots (next to the gear icon)
3. Click Cloud Accounts
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4. In the Cloud Accounts dashboard, click Add New Account
5. In the Display Name field, provide a name for this cloud storage account. The name of the QoreStor server is a good choice
6. Select QoreStor S3 from the dropdown list as the Cloud Type
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Create a one-time or scheduled archive

1. How to Create an Archive