Chapter 10: Centralizing Cloud Backup Solution

As system administrators or DevOps engineers, we all understand the importance of backing up. It's the first place we all check in the case of loss of data or disaster. Because of the cloud's dynamic nature (the instance can come and go at any time), it becomes challenging to decide which data to back up. We also need to decide how long we need to keep the backup, as the type of data and how much data we need to store will both incur a cost.

This chapter will start by looking at AWS's various backup solutions and which one you should choose under which condition. We will then move on to the Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM), which will help automate the process of snapshotting the EBS volume. Then we will look at the Simple Storage Service (S3), one of AWS's most reliable backup offerings, and how to automate backing up files in S3 using the command line. Finally, we will look at how we can transition our data to Glacier...