1. Quickstart 10K Foot View

1.1. Overview

There are two logical administrative domains for backup. Privilege separation between these two domains should be maintained so that complete data loss can only occur if both domains are compromised. The domains are:

cloudadmin:

controls the AWS-side of the infrastructure, Usually multiple people.

Cloudadmins must be comfortable at the Linux command line prompt.

sysadmin:

controls the server to be backed up (server)

Sysadmins must be willing to perform a small set of tasks at the command line.

RCS3 has no native graphical interface. The next section very briefly describes the tasks and provides links to other parts of the documentation for the details.

1.2. First Backup

Step	Task	Sysadmin	Cloudadmin
1	Prerequisites	Native OS Docker Image Windows	Native OS Docker Image
2	Clone RCS3 Repository	Clone	Clone
3	One-Time Cloud Config		Settings
4	Customize aws-settings.yaml	Download from your cloudadmin	Publish
5	Onboard Server	Run localize.py	Allocate Space create-bucket-with-inventory.sh
6	Define Backup Jobs	jobs.yaml
7	Test Backup Config	list/detail
8	Schedule Regular backup	crontab entry Windows
9	Seed the Backup	First Backup gen-backup.py run