Back up GitHub repository using Amazon S3 Bucket

About Amazon S3 Bucket

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.

Required permissions

• s3:PutObject - required, for backup archive upload to Amazon S3 bucket

• s3:GetObject - optional, for backup restore and instant download from Amazon S3 bucket

• s3:DeleteObject - optional, for retention policy, automatic removal of outdated backups from Amazon S3 bucket

• s3:PutObjectRetention - optional, required for the S3 Object Lock header x-amz-object-lock-mode

• s3:PutObjectLegalHold - optional, required for the S3 Object Lock header x-amz-object-lock-legal-hold

• s3:PutObjectTagging - optional, required for the S3 Object Tagging header x-amz-tagging

Set up Amazon S3 Bucket as a customer-managed storage

• In the Cloudback Dashboard, open the repository settings by clicking on the settings icon:

• Click on the + New storage button:

• Type a storage name

• Select ‘Amazon S3 Bucket’ as a storage provider

• Sign in to AWS Management Console and click on the Create bucket:

• Click on the name of your Amazon S3 Bucket:

• Click on the Properties:

• Copy ARN:

• Insert ARN on the Cloudback site to Step 1. In Step 2, you will receive a generated bucket policy document:

• Open Permissions on Amazon S3 to find Bucket policy and click Edit:

• Put in the opened field generated bucket policy document and click on Save changes:

• Click on the Access points:

• Type Access point name

• Copy Access point ARN and place it in Step 3:

• Copy access point policy from Step 4 and place it in AS3 Policy field:

• Click on Create access point

• Click on Save on Cloudback:

• The new storage will be selected as a storage for this repository

• Click on the ‘Save changes’ button to apply the changes for the repository:

• When the backup is created, you should be able to see it on the Amazon S3 Bucket page: