Amazon suggests using a backup EFS and data pipeline for EFS backups but I am thinking of a simpler method to do the backup on a s3 bucket. What are your thoughts/suggestions, any scripts?
I would recommend to use whatever Amazon does. However, for smaller projects where cost effectiveness overweights reliability, custom approaches could be utilized.
Checkout the s3 sync AWS CLI command. I believe that is what you are looking for:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/sync.html
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Use case:
I have one directory on-premise, I want to make a backup for it let's say at every midnight. And want to restore it if something goes wrong.
Doesn't seem a complicated task,but reading through the AWS documentation even this can be cumbersome and costly.Setting up Storage gateway locally seems unnecessarily complex for a simple task like this,setting up at EC2 costly also.
What I have done:
Reading through this + some other blog posts:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Welcome.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/latest/userguide/WhatIsStorageGateway.html
What I have found:
1.Setting up file gateway (locally or as an EC2 instance):
It just mount the files to an S3. And that's it.So my on-premise App will constantly write to this S3.The documentation doesn't mention anything about scheduled backup and recovery.
2.Setting up volume gateway:
Here I can make a scheduled synchronization/backup to the a S3 ,but using a whole volume for it would be a big overhead.
3.Standalone S3:
Just using a bare S3 and copy my backup there by AWS API/SDK with a manually made scheduled job.
Solutions:
Using point 1 from above, enable versioning and the versions of the files will serve as a recovery point.
Using point 3
I think I am looking for a mix of file-volume gateway: Working on file level and make an asynchronus scheduled snapshot for them.
How this should be handled? Isn't there a really easy way which will just send a backup of a directory to the AWS?
The easiest way to backup a directory to Amazon S3 would be:
Install the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI)
Provide credentials via the aws configure command
When required run the aws s3 sync command
For example
aws s3 sync folder1 s3://bucketname/folder1/
This will copy any files from the source to the destination. It will only copy files that have been added or changed since a previous sync.
Documentation: sync — AWS CLI Command Reference
If you want to be more fancy and keep multiple backups, you could copy to a different target directory, or create a zip file first and upload the zip file, or even use a backup program like Cloudberry Backup that knows how to use S3 and can do traditional-style backups.
So I am trying to upload my entire windows volume to S3 glacier and I am following this guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-services-glacier.html but this works in chunks. What if my volume is of 500GB? I want to automate this so that I don't have to upload in chunks. I see that tools like FastGlacier have this capability but it is not what I am looking for, I am looking for a CLI-based solution.
For reference, the subject volume is live on an EC2 instance and target is a vault in S3 glacier.
Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks!
Rather than backing up your volume to Glacier, I'd recommend using an Amazon EBS Snapshot, or create an AMI. This works very nicely and is fast to restore.
Also, rather than using Glacier, I would recommend you store the data in Amazon S3 and choose a Glacier or Glacier Deep Archive storage class. This is much easier to manage.
Can someone explain me whats the best way to transfer data from a harddrive on an EC2 Instance (running Windows Server 2012) to an S3 Bucket for the same AWS Account on a daily basis?
Backround idea to this:
I'm generating a .csv file for one of our Business partners daily at 11:00 am and I want to deliver it to S3 (he has access to our S3 Bucket).
After that he can pull it out of S3 manually or automatically whenever he wants.
Hope you can help me, I only found manually solutions with the CLI, but no automated way for daily transfers.
Best Regards
You can directly mount S3 buckets as mounted drives on your EC2 instances. This way you don't even need some sort of triggers/daily task scheduler along with third party service as objects would be directly available in the S3 bucket.
For Linux typically you would use Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE). Take a look at this repo if you need it for Linux: https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse.
Regarding Windows, there is this tool:
https://tntdrive.com/mount-amazon-s3-bucket.aspx
If these tools don't suit you or if you don't want to mount directly the s3 bucket, here is another option: Whatever you can do with the CLI you should be able to do with the SDK. Therefore if you are able to code in one of the various language AWS Lambda proposes - C#/Java/Go/Powershell/Python/Node.js/Ruby - you could automate that using a Lambda function along with a daily task scheduler triggering at 11a.m.
Hope this helps!
Create a small application that uploads your file to an S3 bucket (there are a some example here). Then use Task Scheduler to execute your application on a regular basis.
I've mostly found old answers and I'm not sure I understand the AWS guide.
The AWS guide for some reason assumes I have an NFS server as source. Other people suggest simply mounting EBS and EFS and using a simple "cp" command. Unfortunately that's very slow.
What's the fastest way of moving data from EBS to EFS?
Is EFS File Sync the right option?
Old answers suggesting simple cp command
AWS switch from EBS to EFS
AWS EBS Snapshot to EFS
File Sync Guide assuming NFS
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/walkthrough-file-sync-ec2.html
I spoke to support and the File Sync tool only makes sense for existing NFS servers.
You may run into problems with burst credits on the EFS, depending on how much you migrate. For me it seems like a long running rsync is the best option. There is no better way to do this.
I am new in this forum and technology and looking for your advice. I am working on POC and below are my requirement. Could you please guide me the way to achieve the result.
Copy data from NAS to S3.
Use S3 as a source in EMR Job with target to S3/Redshift.
Any link, pdf will also helpful.
Thanks,
Pardeep
There's a lot here that you're asking and there's not a lot of info on your use case to go by so I'm going to be very general in my answer and hopefully it at least points you in the right direction.
You can use Lambda to copy data from your NAS to S3. Assuming your NAS is on-premise and assuming you have a VPN into your VPC or even Direct Connect configured, then you can use a VPC enabled Lambda function to read from the NAS on-premise and write to S3.
If your NAS is running on EC2 the above will remain the same except there's no need for VPN or Direct Connect.
Are you looking to kick off the EMR job from Lambda? You can use S3 as a source for EMR to then output to S3 either from within Lambda or via other means as well.
If you can provide more info on your use case we could probably give you a better quality answer.
Copy data from NAS to S3.
Really depends on the amount of data and the frequency on which you run the copy job. If the data in GBs, then you can install AWS CLI on a machine where NFS is attached. AWS CLI command like CP can be multithreaded and can easily copy your datasets to S3. You might also enable S3 transfer acceleration to speed things up. Having AWS Direct connect to your company network can also speed up any transfers from on-premis to AWS.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/topic/s3-config.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/transfer-acceleration.html
https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/
If the data is in TBs (which is probably distributed across multiple volumes), then you might have to consider using physical transfer utilities like AWS Snowball,AWSImportExport or AWS Snowmobile based on the use-case.
https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-data-migration/
Use S3 as a source in EMR Job with target to S3/Redshift.
Again, as there are lot of applications on EMR, there are lot of choices. Redshift supports COPY/UNLOAD commands to S3 which any application can make use of. If you want to use SPARK on EMR , then installing databricks spark-redshift driver is a viable option for you.
https://github.com/databricks/spark-redshift
https://databricks.com/blog/2015/10/19/introducing-redshift-data-source-for-spark.html
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/powering-amazon-redshift-analytics-with-apache-spark-and-amazon-machine-learning/