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ISCSI Volume to AWS S3 Glacier

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Hello
Just a simple question
I have a ISCSI volume with my regular backup jobs and I would like to push all the data to aws glacier S3, however when I do a scale out it wants me to convert all the jobs to push to aws glacier from now on. I do not want that but I also want data to also backup to local iscsi volume.

I also tried the external backup respoitoy and I cannot find folder on my s3 glacier bucket.

Sorry I am still new to this and would love some advise from experts. I am not sure what to do
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Re: ISCSI Volume to AWS S3 Glacier

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I do a scale out it wants me to convert all the jobs to push to aws glacier from now on. I do not want that but I also want data to also backup to local iscsi volume.
Your iSCSI volume gets converted to a SOBR and all Jobs will be automatically reconfigured to use the new SOBR and the existing backup chains. The iSCSI volume will then act as a extend for the performance tier of the SOBR.
If you choose COPY Offload Policy, nothing changes to backups on the iSCSI volume. Just make sure, that you don‘t enable MOVE.

All Backup Jobs must still backup the data first to the iSCSI volume (Performance Tier). The offload job copies the restore points to the AWS S3 bucket (Capacity Tier).

The retention for both tiers is controlled by the retention settings in the backup job.

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Re: ISCSI Volume to AWS S3 Glacier

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Hello,
Thank you for the case as well. How does your retention look like?

Mildur has already explained it very well, but as you mentioned Glacier, keen to understand a bit more how your retention doos look like, if you have GFS, how much data you are willing to keep onprem, vs on S3/Glacier, etc

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Re: ISCSI Volume to AWS S3 Glacier

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My retention rates are 30 days, the VM is on 7 restore points. We want to keep current data on premises and offload the archive to glacier
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Not sure what's the difference between retention rate and number of restore points. Also, it's unclear whether the GFS is enabled or not. So it would be helpful, if you share the simple and GFS retention schemes and define how many restore points should be located on local storage and how many - on cloud one. Thanks!
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