You can now restore your Physical Disk Image VHD file directly to an Amazon S3 bucket which will be the first step in allowing you to launch a new instance in EC2 from that VHD.
In the Client GUI's Restore tab on the left hand menu, you will select the 'Disk Image to S3' tab.
Before starting the restore you will need:
- Access to the AWS Management Console
- An AWS Access Key (both the access key ID and the associated secret access key)
- The correct S3 permissions set up on the AWS Access Key including:
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- s3:GetObject
- s3:PutObject
- s3:DeleteObject
- s3:AbortMultipartUpload
- s3:ListMultipartUploadParts
- s3:ListAllMyBuckets
- s3:GetBucketLocation
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- The correct EC2 permissions set up on the AWS Access Key:
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- ec2:ImportSnapshot
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After confirming the prerequisite AWS Access and Permissions requirements, click next to move to the next step of the Disk Image backup.
Select the Physical Disk that you want to restore to S3:
In this step of the wizard, you can select the disk image (or multiple images) that you would like to restore to your S3 storage. You have the same sorting and filtering options that you have for Restoring Files in the Restore section of the GUI such as selecting the date to restore from. If multiple computers are backing up to the same backup account, then hit the "Refresh" button to the right of the "Computer" list will pull down backup histories for every computer, and then the "Computer" pull down-menu will allow you to specify from which computer's backup you would like to restore from.
Clicking the "+" button to the right of a Physical Drive will add the Disk Image to the 'Restore Queue' section as a selection.
If you want to remove a Physical Drive selection, click the red "X" button to the right of the Disk Image in the 'Restore Queue'.
After making your Physical Drive selection to backup to S3, click next.
Entering your AWS S3 Keys and selecting the bucket:
Enter your valid AWS S3 Keys and click the Load Buckets button. This will query AWS S3 for a list of your buckets and may take a few moments to load.
Once your buckets have loaded, select the bucket you would like to restore to (making sure to match the Region that you will be spinning up your EC2 instance in.) This will also create a default path to the AWS S3 Restore Location within the bucket you have selected.
Click Next to go to the final step of the Wizard.
Review and Restore:
Now you can review your selections and restore location within your chosen S3 bucket. If everything looks correct, click the Restore To S3 button to kick off the restore to your S3 bucket.
You will track the progress as you would any other restore process, both in the Client GUI > Monitor > Overview section, as well as in the BackupOps Web Console > Transfers section.
Next steps to take on AWS to restore virtual workstations in EC2:
This is the first step in being able to spin up your Physical Drive Disk Image as an AWS EC2 instance. To learn more about the next steps in the process follow the guide in the Converting a VHD File in S3 to an AMI and Launching EC2 Instances Using the AWS Console documentation.