DR planning with SOBR and AWS

[tgschulze]

I'm trying to develop a DR plan for recovering to AWS in case of major disaster. Currently, we are running V11, our VMs are backed up to an SOBR that is connected to AWS. We have the SOBR set to copy backups to object storage as soon as they are created so data in AWS is relatively up to date. My question is, is there a recommended or best practice to follow for restoring the VMs to EC2 intances. Specifically, how do I get a backup server up and running in AWS to then import the SOBR data to start restoring directly to EC2 instances.

Thank you for any help.

Tom

[Andreas Neufert]

Rollout an EC2 Server with Windows
Download and Install Backup & Replication
Create a Object Repository (not a SOBR) and point it to the (internal) IP address of the S3 Bucket and let it rescan. Internal IP to avoid egress charges.

Go to the import section under HOME-Backups and start the Direct Restore to EC2.

You can test this out today or create a small bucket with a small VM and document the workflow.