Setting up a backup of Egnyte to Amazon S3 involves creating synchronized pairs for both shared and private folders, ensuring your data is safely backed up in the cloud. This process requires authorizing cloudHQ to access both your Amazon S3 and Egnyte accounts, facilitating a seamless backup experience.
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Egnyte provides two main directories for file storage: the Shared and Private folders. The Shared folder is a central hub for organizational files, while the Private folders cater to individual users, housing confidential documents. Administrators have the ability to oversee and manage contents in both directories, ensuring efficient data organization and security.
Answers to the most commonly asked questions about backing up your Egnyte
The video demonstrates how to set up a backup for Egnyte files to Amazon S3, detailing the creation of a new S3 bucket, an AWS IAM user, and configuring Glacier policies if needed.
– Create Amazon S3 bucket for sync and backup
– Create an Amazon AWS AIM user
– Optionally, you can set up Amazon S3 to Amazon Glacier archiving rules
– Add Amazon S3 account to cloudHQ
This support note lists troubleshooting steps when authorizing Egnyte internal application.
The support note outlines the process for setting up backup, migration, or sync of Egnyte files with cloudHQ, including registering for API client keys, creating an internal application, contacting Egnyte support to enable the application and set API limits, updating the non-SSO Egnyte password, and authorizing cloudHQ access via the created API keys.
Here are instructions for how to create an Amazon IAM user: Create a user in Amazon IAM: Save your credentials. You will need to enter these credentials in cloudHQ. Attach policy “AmazonS3FullAccess”: NOTE: If you already have a bucket and you want to limit cloudHQ to access only that bucket, you can apply the policy […]