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Step 1: Onboard AWS Account with CloudFormation Template
To discover your Amazon EFS files, you will first need to onboard your AWS account to Druva, via a CloudFormation template (CFT). The CloudFormation stack allows you to provision the access role for your AWS environment. You can then add or update your AWS accounts from your AWS Workloads (CloudRanger) Management Console.
First time onboarding: Log in to your Druva Cloud Platform (DCP) management console and navigate to the Organization in which you wish to add a new AWS account. Create an AWS Access Role to grant access to your AWS account and synchronize your AWS environment with Druva. Streamline multi-account deployments with AWS CloudFormation StackSets that offer centralized control and flexibility to manage resources across your AWS organization.
If you already have an existing account: Update your CloudFormation template to grant the requisite access permissions to your AWS account. In this case, a new role for your Amazon EFS resources are created. For more information, see Update Existing AWS Access Roles for AWS Workloads.
📝 Note
To configure your AWS Workloads account, you will need to grant AWS Workloads third-party access to your AWS account. To know more, see Roles and permissions for EFS Resources.
Step 2: Plan and set up your AWS environment
Once you onboard your Amazon EFS files, you will first need to verify your network configuration and set up your AWS environment. For more information, see Prerequisites for Amazon EFS data protection.
EFS Mount Target configuration: Ensure your EFS file systems have at least one mount target configured in a VPC subnet. The selected mount target's subnet and security group will be used to launch the EC2 worker instance.
Network connectivity prerequisites: Verify that the network and configuration requirements are met within your AWS environment, and the S3 Gateway endpoint setup to avoid egress costs.
Druva Quantum Bridge deployment: Ensure your AWS environment is configured to support the worker instance lifecycle required to deploy the Druva Quantum Bridge.
EFS File System Policy configuration: To enable successful discovery and access of the Amazon EFS, the file system policy must include the designated IAM role.
Step 3: Provision Storage and Configure Storage Rules
Storage Rules help create a mapping between Druva Cloud and your AWS resources within specific Regions and Accounts. Once you identify the AWS resources to be backed up to Druva Cloud, the Storage Rules direct the data backups to the appropriate Druva Cloud Region provisioned within your chosen Account.
📝 Note
You will need to configure Storage Rules to get started with backing up snapshots to Druva Cloud. A backup policy defined to move snapshots to Druva Cloud will be executed only when a corresponding Storage Rule is available.
Storage Rules are integral to your Cloud data protection workflow. For more information, see Provision Storage and Configure Storage Rules.
Step 4: Manage Encryption
Secure your data backups by encrypting them with a unique e-Key. The ekey once generated is used to encrypt the user data that is then backed up to Cloud.
For more information, see Manage Encryption.
Step 5: Discover EFS Resources
Once the CloudFormation template is updated, Druva automatically discovers your EFS file systems. Once the onboarding is complete, you can view all the File Systems discovered from the EFS menu on the left navigation pane.
Log into the Management Console, and navigate to Protect > Got to AWS.
Select your AWS Account and then click EFS from the left pane.
EFS file systems display using the file share name. If no name is configured, the file system ID appears instead. For more information, see Discover Amazon Elastic File Systems.
Step 6: Set up backup policy for AWS EFS backup
Backup Policies define the backup schedule and the tiered retention settings for your AWS data.
You can create a backup policy and apply it to one or more backup sets.
For more information, see Manage backup policies for Amazon Elastic File Systems.
Step 7: Manage your data protection workflow
With backup policies in place, your data protection schedule is automated based on your retention settings.
Manually configure your Amazon EFS file systems for backup and automate your backup workflow.
Restore your Amazon EFS files and folders to the original or an alternate location.