---
title: "How to back up an SNC Cloud Platform Object Storage bucket"
description: "Find out how to back up an SNC Cloud Platform Object Storage bucket to a remote Object Storage"
url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/pt/guides/hosted-private-cloud/cloud-platform/snc-cloud-platform-backup-object-storage-bucket
lang: pt
lastUpdated: 2026-06-11
---
# How to back up an SNC Cloud Platform Object Storage bucket

## Objective

You can use a tool such as [Rclone](https://rclone.org/) to automate backups of your bucket data to a remote Object Storage. The backups can be used to restore your data in the event of a problem.

## Requirements

- An [Object Storage bucket](/pt/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storage/s3-getting-started-with-object-storage.md)
- Access Keys generated for the source and destination Object Storages
- **Rclone** installed
- **S3cmd** installed and configured with the Access Keys

## Instructions

:::info
The Rclone backup tool is used here to describe one possible method for performing backups.
Users are free to choose the solution that suits them.
:::

### Create a bucket to store the backups

Enter the following command:

```bash
$ s3cmd mb s3://backup
```

:::info
To be able to retrieve different versions of a file sent to this bucket, you can enable [object versioning](/pt/guides/storage-and-backup/object-storage/s3-versioning.md) for this bucket.
:::

### Configure the Rclone source and destination

Create a `~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf` configuration file:

```bash
[source-s3]
type = s3
provider = Ceph
env_auth = false
access_key_id = CEPH_ACCESS_KEY_SOURCE
secret_access_key = CEPH_SECRET_KEY_SOURCE
endpoint = https://s3-beta.eu-west-rbx-snc.cloud.snc.ovh.net/
region = eu-west-rbx-snc
acl = private
force_path_style = true

[target-s3]
type = s3
provider = Ceph
env_auth = false
access_key_id = CEPH_ACCESS_KEY_TARGET
secret_access_key = CEPH_SECRET_KEY_TARGET
endpoint = https://s3-beta.eu-west-sbg-snc.cloud.snc.ovh.net/
region = eu-west-sbg-snc
acl = private
force_path_style = true
```

Configure the `source-s3` and the `target-s3`, ideally across two SNC Cloud Platform regions.

Once the environment is configured, the following rclone command can be used to validate the configuration before a backup:

```bash
$ rclone sync source-s3:source-bucket target-s3:backup \
  --progress \
  --transfers 16 \
  --checkers 32 \
  --dry-run
```

### Schedule a recurring task

Once the command has been tested, you can schedule a recurring task.

1\. Create the systemd service unit:

```bash
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/rclone-backup.service > /dev/null <<'EOF'
[Unit]
Description=Rclone backup
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=YOUR_USER
Group=YOUR_GROUP
Environment=RCLONE_CONFIG=PATH_TO_RCLONE_CONFIG/rclone.conf
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone sync \
  source-s3:source-bucket \
  target-s3:backup \
  --log-file=/var/log/rclone-backup.log \
  --log-level=INFO \
  --transfers=16 \
  --checkers=32
EOF
```

2\. Create the systemd timer unit:

```bash
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/rclone-backup.timer > /dev/null <<'EOF'
[Unit]
Description=Run Rclone backup daily

[Timer]
OnCalendar=daily
Persistent=true
RandomizedDelaySec=15m

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target
EOF
```

3\. Reload the systemd configuration and enable the timer:

```bash
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now rclone-backup.timer
```

4\. Check the configuration:

```bash
systemctl list-timers --all | grep rclone
sudo systemctl enable --now rclone-backup.service
systemctl status rclone-backup.service
journalctl -u rclone-backup.service
```

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