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8.1.3 Cloud Backup
Am a zon S3
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by AWS
(Amazon Web Services.) It provides a simple web service interface that can be used to
store and retrieve data from anywhere on the web. With Amazon S3, you can upload
data from your NAS to Amazon S3 or download the data from Amazon S3 to your NAS.
You need to register an AWS account from http://aws.amazon.com and pay for the
service. After signing up, you need to create at least one bucket (root folder) on
Amazon S3 using an Amazon S3 application. We recommend the Mozilla Firefox add-on
"S3Fox" for beginners.
After setting up the Amazon S3 account, follow these steps to back up or retrieve 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.
4. Specify the local directory on the NAS for replication.
5. Enter the replication schedule.
6. Click "Finish". The replication job will be executed according to your schedule.
