2 . Accessing S3 Buckets

To access S3 Storage, get the following information (credentials) from your system administrator:

• User panel IP address
• DNS name of the S3 endpoint
• Access key ID
• Secret access key

S3 Storage allows you to access your data in several ways:

• Via S3 Storage user panel
• Via a third-party S3 application like Cyberduck, Mountain Duck,Backup Exec, etc

This sections describes how to use the aforementioned applications to access data in S3.

In this chapter:

• 2.1. Managing Buckets via S3 Storage User Panel
  • 2.1.1. Logging in to the User Panel
  • 2.1.2. Adding, Deleting, and Listing Buckets
  • 2.1.2.1. Listing Bucket Contents in a Web Browser
  • 2.1.3. Creating, Deleting, and Listing Folders
  • 2.1.4. Uploading and Downloading Files
  • 2.1.5. Obtaining and Validating File Certificates
• 2.2. Accessing S3 Storage with CyberDuck
  • 2.2.1. Managing Bucket Versions
• 2.3. Mounting S3 Storage with Mountain Duck
  • 2.3.1. Creating Buckets on Mounted S3 Storage
  • 2.4. Configuring Backup Exec to Keep Backups in S3 Storage
  • Bucket and Key Naming Policies