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7.2.3 Cloud Backup
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by AWS
(Amazon Web Services). It provides a simple web services interface that can be used to
store and retrieve the data from anywhere on the web. With Amazon S3, you can upload
the data from your NAS to Amazon S3 or download the data from Amazon S3 to your
NAS.
Note that you need to register an AWS account from http://aws.amazon.com and pay
for the service. After signing up for an account, you need to create at least one bucket
(root folder) on Amazon S3 by an Amazon S3 application. We recommend the Mozilla
Firefox add-on “S3Fox” for beginners.
After setting up the Amazon S3 account, follow the steps below to back up the data to
or retrieve the data from Amazon S3 using the NAS.
1. Click “Create a Replication Job”.
2. Enter the remote replication job name.
3. Select the usage type: “Upload” or “Download” and enter other settings. A bucket is
the root directory on Amazon S3. You can test the connection to the remote host
testing by clicking “Test”. Other settings are optional.