You can use the Commvault software to back up and restore S3 compatible storage systems, including third-party storage platforms that implement the S3 API.
Supported S3 Compatible Storage Systems
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Cloudian S3-Compatible Object Storage
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Hitachi Content Platform
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HPE GreenLake for File Storage MP
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Huawei OceanStor Pacific (formerly called "OceanStor 100D" and "FusionStorage")
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MinIO
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Pure Storage FlashBlade
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Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 S3 endpoints (SSL with hosted domain)
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Scality RING
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StorageGRID object storage (S3 compatible)
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VAST Data Platform
Backups
Backups You Can Perform
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Full backups
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Incremental backups
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Synthetic full backups
Data You Can Back Up
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Buckets and objects across all supported S3 compatible storage systems
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Object-level data including:
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Metadata of the object
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ACLs of the object
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Tags of the object
Note
After a full backup, if the tag or the ACL of an object is modified, but the data has not changed, then the next incremental backup does not include that object. Incremental backups include only objects whose data has changed.
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Data You Cannot Back Up
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Older versions of an object
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Files and folders without a name
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Files and folders that contain a forward slash ("/") in their names
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Glacier Deep Archive data and Glacier Flexible Retrieval (formerly Glacier) data in the Amazon S3 storage class
You can view the archive objects in the failed items list of the backup job.
Restores
Destinations You Can Restore To
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The original location (in place)
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To a different S3 compatible storage account, and to the following cloud storages (out-of-place):
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Amazon S3
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Azure Blob
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Azure Files
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Google Cloud
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Ali Cloud
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IBM cloud
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Azure Data Lake Gen2
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Disk
Data You Can Restore
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Data, along with the metadata
Note
You cannot restore metadata to a different cloud storage system.
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ACLs