HYCU is a global leader in multi-cloud backup as a service that aims to simplify data protection, storage and recovery for businesses.

Having a dedicated server under Nutanix Community Edition at home, I deployed a HYCU instance to perform backup tests.

I’ll show you how to add a Wasabi bucket on a HYCU instance to outsource backups. Wasabi is a low-cost, high-performance cloud-based S3-compatible enterprise storage object with no charges for data egress or API calls and no complex storage tiers.

Wasabi account creation

Wasabi is obviously a paid offer ($5.99 / To / month), but you have 30 days to test the service (without having to provide a means of payment).

To get started, you need to create an account with Wasabi: https://wasabi.com/sign-up/

Once the account is created, you have access to your Wasabi interface:

We can now move on to creating the bucket.

Wasabi bucket creation

To start creating the bucket, just click on “Create Bucket” on the home page of your space :

Then, enter the name you want to give to this bucket, select the region, note the DNS corresponding to the selected region and click on “CREATE BUCKET”:

The bucket now appears in the list of your buckets:

In order for HYCU to access this bucket, an access key must also be created.

Wasabi access key creation

To create the Wasabi access key, click on “Access Key” in the side menu :

Then on “CREATE NEW ACCESS KEY” at the top right :

Write down the access key and secret key somewhere because you won’t be able to view it afterwards:

The Wasabi part is over, let’s move on to HYCU.

Wasabi bucket setup on HYCU

On the admin interface of HYCU, in the left side menu, click on “Targets” and then “Add” on the top right.

Fill in the target name, enable compression and click “Next” :

Fill in the information requested, in particular the type, the target (which depends on the datacenter you chose when creating the bucket), the name you chose for your bucket and the access keys :

Click on “Save” once all the information has been filled in and if everything is good, your bucket is then added to the HYCU interface.

All you have to do is configure your policies to use this new bucket.

Creation of the HYCU policy

In the side menu, click on “Policies” then on “New” at the top right and fill in the configuration information you want to apply to this backup:

Validate then add VMs to this policy in order to protect them directly from the list of detected VMs:

Your virtual machines are now backed up to your S3 Wasabi compatible storage space.