WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.444 --> 00:00:12.487 One feature of Akeeba Backup Professional 2 00:00:12.523 --> 00:00:14.113 is to allow you to automatically 3 00:00:14.178 --> 00:00:15.215 store the backup 4 00:00:15.465 --> 00:00:17.059 on a remote location 5 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:19.280 such as Amazon S3. 6 00:00:20.024 --> 00:00:21.563 Amazon Web Services 7 00:00:21.676 --> 00:00:23.849 and their S3 storage system 8 00:00:23.935 --> 00:00:26.056 have a free level that you can use 9 00:00:26.138 --> 00:00:28.138 with up 5gb of storage. 10 00:00:28.673 --> 00:00:30.482 Once you have created your account 11 00:00:30.826 --> 00:00:32.393 and logged in to the console 12 00:00:32.639 --> 00:00:36.786 select the S3 scalable storage option. 13 00:00:38.831 --> 00:00:40.831 The first thing you are going to need to do 14 00:00:40.941 --> 00:00:43.171 is to create what Amazon S3 15 00:00:43.266 --> 00:00:44.428 calls a Bucket. 16 00:00:46.884 --> 00:00:49.167 Give your Bucket a unique name 17 00:00:49.550 --> 00:00:51.499 ensuring that you don't use 18 00:00:51.599 --> 00:00:54.105 any upper case letters or spaces. 19 00:00:55.186 --> 00:00:57.186 I usually use the domain name 20 00:00:59.103 --> 00:01:00.123 and select the region 21 00:01:00.167 --> 00:01:02.167 where you want to store your bucket 22 00:01:02.178 --> 00:01:03.667 and click Create. 23 00:01:06.332 --> 00:01:08.332 Now that you have created your Bucket 24 00:01:08.587 --> 00:01:11.715 you will need to create your Security Access keys. 25 00:01:13.354 --> 00:01:14.905 Click on your username 26 00:01:15.149 --> 00:01:17.149 and select Security Credentials. 27 00:01:19.356 --> 00:01:21.356 Now click on Access Keys 28 00:01:21.475 --> 00:01:23.731 and create a new Access Key. 29 00:01:24.197 --> 00:01:26.197 Display the key by pressing 30 00:01:26.311 --> 00:01:27.348 Show Access 31 00:01:28.144 --> 00:01:29.884 and you can download this key file 32 00:01:29.899 --> 00:01:31.020 for future use 33 00:01:31.530 --> 00:01:33.530 but for now let's just keep it open 34 00:01:33.954 --> 00:01:35.840 To configure Akeeba Backup 35 00:01:36.002 --> 00:01:37.681 to now use S3 36 00:01:37.828 --> 00:01:40.071 as the storage location for the backups 37 00:01:40.724 --> 00:01:42.724 we must first select Configuration. 38 00:01:44.036 --> 00:01:45.546 If you scroll down 39 00:01:45.530 --> 00:01:47.908 until you reach the processing engine. 40 00:01:48.401 --> 00:01:50.401 Here you can see several options 41 00:01:50.946 --> 00:01:53.390 and the one we want is Amazon S3. 42 00:01:55.298 --> 00:01:57.692 Once selected click on Configure. 43 00:01:59.380 --> 00:02:01.582 We now need to enter our Access Key 44 00:02:02.003 --> 00:02:03.561 which we created earlier. 45 00:02:03.711 --> 00:02:06.579 and the Secret Key that goes with it. 46 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:22.046 Finally we need to enter the Bucket name 47 00:02:22.365 --> 00:02:24.998 and the Amazon S3 region. 48 00:02:26.858 --> 00:02:29.972 Once that's done we can Save and Close. 49 00:02:31.859 --> 00:02:34.346 Akeeba Backup has now been configured 50 00:02:34.471 --> 00:02:38.005 to store its backups on the Amazon S3 cloud. 51 00:02:38.884 --> 00:02:42.467 To test let's take a new backup. 52 00:02:44.448 --> 00:02:46.448 Once the backup has completed 53 00:02:46.642 --> 00:02:48.946 we can go to the Manage Backups page 54 00:02:49.032 --> 00:02:51.032 and we can see 55 00:02:51.084 --> 00:02:52.708 it's Status is REMOTE 56 00:02:52.825 --> 00:02:54.990 and if we click on this link here 57 00:02:55.372 --> 00:02:56.892 we have the option to fetch 58 00:02:57.079 --> 00:02:58.640 the files back to the server 59 00:02:58.676 --> 00:03:01.137 or to download them to our own Desktop. 60 00:03:01.694 --> 00:03:05.024 If we also go to the S3 Management Console 61 00:03:05.588 --> 00:03:07.715 we can browse into the bucket 62 00:03:07.835 --> 00:03:10.741 and we can see that our backup file has been stored. 63 00:03:11.807 --> 00:03:14.132 Now we are able to create backups 64 00:03:14.344 --> 00:03:15.796 and store them remotely 65 00:03:15.858 --> 00:03:18.145 somewhere separate to the web site.