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title: "Leveraging Cloud Storage for Replication Tasks"
slug: "leveraging-cloud-storage-for-replication-tasks"
updated: 2023-11-13T20:09:26Z
published: 2023-11-13T20:10:04Z
canonical: "docs.retrospect.com/leveraging-cloud-storage-for-replication-tasks"
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# Leveraging Cloud Storage for Replication Tasks

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With the availability of on-premise storage, private cloud locations, and public cloud infrastructure, companies have a variety of choices for how to store and access their critical data. Selecting the correct tier for the particular data is an optimization between accessibility, retrieval speed, and cost.

On-premise NVMe storage, including Nexsan V-Series, provides extremely fast access to data at a high cost, while large disk arrays, including Nexsan E-Series, deliver on-premise access to low-cost scalable storage. Public cloud providers offer a rich set of storage tiers as well, ranging from fast and always available to very affordable with a flexible retrieval time period.

Leveraging cloud storage allows companies to lift-and-shift sections of their data to the cloud, adding redundancy through public cloud providers' built-in infrastructure and reducing on-premise costs.

Retrospect Backup enables data migration and replication between on-premise storage and off-premise cloud storage using policies that can be scheduled with advanced filtering capabilities. With Retrospect, companies can replicate their data local-to-cloud, cloud-to-local, and cloud-to-cloud with certified support for Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, and MinIO. Let’s walk through how.

## Adding Cloud Storage

In Retrospect, click on "Volumes" (Windows) or "Sources" (Mac).

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Select "Amazon S3" or your preferred provider.

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Type in your path information and credentials from above and click "OK".

We now have a cloud storage volume added to Retrospect. We can replicate it or from it or even back it up. For more information about protecting cloud storage with on-premise backups, see

## Replication Policies

To create a replication policy:

Select "Scripts".

Click "New" (Windows) or the plus button (Mac).

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Select "Replication" (Windows) or "Copy" (Mac).

Now that we have a policy, we can set it up.

## Local-to-Cloud Replication

To replicate from a local volume to a cloud volume, add the local volume as the source and the cloud volume as the destination.

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## Cloud-to-Local Replication

To replicate from a cloud volume to a local volume, add the cloud volume as the source and the local volume as the destination.

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## Cloud-to-Cloud Replication

To replicate from a cloud volume to a different cloud volume, add the first cloud volume as the source and the second cloud volume as the destination.

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Last Update: January 17, 2022