Best Practices for S3 Backup

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• Best practice for S3 backups' frequency and retention

  S3 backups are meant for low-frequency (weekly, monthly, yearly), long-term (over 3 months) retention backups. You can see our recommendation for S3 backup here: https://n2ws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/N2WS-quick-guide-optimize-backups-S3.pdf Not ...

• Does CPM backup ephemeral storage?

  The answer is no, CPM does not backup the ephemeral storage. CPM utilizes native AWS snapshots, and they do not support ephemeral storage. Ephemeral storage is not meant for persistent data. That said, in some setups, to leverage the speed of that ...

• Copy backup to S3 may fail with the error message "Workers could not be launched"

  During backup copy to S3 a worker creation may fail with the error (backup.log): - Error - Workers could not be launched The worker usually fails right after it was started. There are several possible issues that gives you this error. 1) The was an ...

• N2WS-13893 - Retry of backup will not delete previous backup record from monitor

  Issue: The default behavior is that when a retry happens for a backup record it deletes the previous backup records and keeps only the latest try. While for some this helps with showing only the latest attempts, for other customers this can be a ...

• Cross-Region DR RDS backup may fail with "Copy failed due to an AWS limitation regarding default encryption key” error

  RDS DR backup of encrypted snapshots between different regions may fail with the following error in the Backup log: Error - RDS DR, copy snapshot failed (to DR account) due to an AWS limitation regarding default encryption key (source US East (Ohio), ...