03-01-2017 01:15 AM
Hello,
I want to know if it's possible to do a duplicate to Amazon S3 with BackupExec 2015 (or BackupExec 2016) for disaster recovery and after to restore the sever as EC2 instance.
servers are VM on VmWare 5.1.
I imagined that during the replication, BackupExec copy the vmdk file from the local storage to the Amazon Storage, and after I will can use Amazon tools to convert Vmware files to Amazon Instance.
I discover during the test that on the Amazon Storage there are 100 000 files of 1 MB, I don't know how to use them.
I need to create EC2 instance when our building is destroyed and I without our on promise BackupExec server.
Is it possible ? are there best practice in this case.
BR,
Pascal
03-09-2017 07:26 AM
You can do a duplicate to cloud with BE 15 or 16 and recover to EC2 but it's a manual process at this time. In order to use this data for DR you would have to manually stand up a BE server in the EC2 cloud then attach the S3 cloud storage to it (being sure the original BE server is not still connected to this cloud storage device). Then inventory/catalog the cloud storage which would make the backup set(s) available for restore. A target server would need to be created in EC2 with OS and any applications used to simulate the original server environment. The restore is run to this server.
Russ