Backup UniFi Controller to Amazon AWS S3

This is our super simple guide to backing up your Ubiquiti® UniFi Controller or Cloud Key to an AWS S3

What you will need

1. A UniFi Controller — This can be any sort of controller like a Cloud Key, Raspberry Pi, your own server or a hosted server. It needs to be accessible over the internet or you can whitelist it to our IP (details in out portal) but it does need a permanent IP or Hostname.
2. A BackiFi.com account. Don’t worry, it’s free.
3. An AWS S3 bucket to connect to and backup — if you need some help getting this part you can check out this guide.

Instructions

1. Login to your BackiFi account, connect at least one controller, create at least one schedule and then go to the Storages and click the purple + button to add a new storage location.
2. Select AWS S3from the dropdown and enter in your Access Key ID, Secret Access Key and the Bucket name.
3. Our app will send a test file to confirm that our app has the appropriate permissions — you can find this as Backifi-AWS-Test.txt. You can also delete this at any time if you like.
4. You will be redirected back to BackiFi.com and you can now edit the row and set a nickname for this S3 connection.
5. You can add as many different S3 accounts or any other storage types that you like, once done, go to the Configurations tab and setup some scheduled automated backups.

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