Lightbits Data Protection

The Lightbits storage cluster uses node replication in the cluster for data availability and durability, and backup can be used for long-term durability (external to the cluster).

The Lightbits cluster in AWS can back up the data on the cluster to AWS S3 (Amazon’s Simple Storage Service). This provides yet another layer of protection for the data, so if the whole cluster fails and all data is lost - or if there is a need to shut down the cluster - the backed-up data still remains in S3.

This is also a method to move data between clusters in the same region or in different regions. For example, users have a regulatory obligation to save a backup of the data in a different region. The application is in AWS us-east1. The backup bucket can be set up in us-west1 and the backup process will back up the data between the regions. Users can then restore the data to a new cluster in us-west1 or to any other AWS region.