Amazon S3 buckets have long been leveraged by SoftNAS to provide affordable and easy to manage storage. These buckets of data are resilient, and can survive the failure of a hosting service, such as SoftNAS. Should your existing instance be compromised, SoftNAS makes it easy to recover your S3 bucket by allowing you to retrieve it by importing it to a new instance. This solution limits downtime, and allows you to recover mission critical data quickly and easily.
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To access SoftNAS' import S3 functionality, first create a new SoftNAS VM to serve as host to the imported data.
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Record the name, bucket information etc, from your previous SoftNAS (or other) instance. If your previous instance cannot be opened, this can be retrieved from the AWS console, under S3.
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Login to the SoftNAS instance, using the default credentials (unless you have already changed them).
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Once logged in, go to the
Storage Administration pane and select
Disk Devices.
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Once in
Disk Devices, select
Import Disk. Click
Next on opening frame of the
Import Disk Device wizard.
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Here you can retrieve your S3 bucket by providing the required information.
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AWS Access and Secret key
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Device Name - once AWS credentials have been entered, the device names available to that account will be listed. Select the desired device.
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