IBM Cloud Object Storage

You can back up data in IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS).

Key Features

  • Make a backup copy of the data by backing it up to local storage repository.

  • For optimal load sharing, you can distribute restores to the cloud using multiple streams.

Terminology

This documentation uses the following terminology.

Term

Description

object storage repository

The interface that backs up the IBM COS data.

account

The entity that represents the data in an IBM COS storage account. You can configure multiple object storage repositories to manage multiple storage accounts.

content group

The entity that defines the IBM COS data to be backed up.

object

The entity that represents a unit of storage in IBM COS.

bucket

The entity that represents a collection of IBM COS objects.

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