Features

The main feature of the Bacula Enterprise Amazon EC2 Plugin is to offer backup and restore for Amazon EC2 instances (also known as Virtual Machines). This includes the instance configuration data (or metadata), the associated volumes (also known as disks) configuration data (or metadata), as the actual data stored on those volumes.

In addition tits main purpose, this Plugin permits users to customize its functions to meet their specific needs. It offers a high level of flexibility to select the target information to protect, to parallelize the operations efficiently through different strategies or to restore the information from or to different locations, allowing the modification of many parameters at that restore time.

General Features

Below, there is a list of general features this Plugin offers:

Backup and restore of Amazon EC2 instances
Backup and restore of Amazon EBS volumes
Amazon AWS API based backups: Amazon EBS Direct API based backups to access volume blocks
Automatic multi-threaded download or upload operations
Network resiliency mechanisms
Instances and volume discovery capabilities
List instances and disk through query or list commands
Auto-generation capabilities if combined with Scan Plugin
Restore objects to Amazon EC2
- To the original location (region, availability zone …)
- To a different location (region, availability zone …)
- With the same original instance and/or disks configurations (name, tags, instance type, network options, security groups …)
- With different instance and/or disks configurations (volume type, volume iops, volume throughput …)
Full, Incremental & Differential backups
- Change block tracking based on snapshot differences
Advanced instance selection for backup, filtering by any parameter
Advanced disk selection for backup, including or excluding boot volumes or any disk by id
Automatic snapshot cleanup before and after backups
Command line mode to work from or to a given local file system path.