Backing up and Restoring Your Content 
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Amazon S3 
The Amazon S3 online storage service allows you to back up your Iomega StorCenter ix2-dl to the 
cloud. 
Enabling the Amazon S3 Feature 
1.  On the Amazon S3 page, click the switch on.  
Note: If you do not have an Amazon S3 account, click the link to create an account. 
2.  Enter a valid access key, secret key, and bucket name from your Amazon S3 account 
information. 
You can create a bucket at account setup, or you can enter a new bucket for your StorCenter 
ix2-dl . Your content lives in this bucket on your Amazon S3 account. 
3.  Select an existing Share on your StorCenter ix2-dl in which to copy files that are then backed 
up to Amazon S3. 
4.  Click Apply to save your changes. 
Backing up Files to the Amazon S3 Cloud 
After you copy files to the selected Share on your StorCenter ix2-dl , the files are automatically 
backed up to the Amazon S3 cloud service. File uploads are limited to 5 GB in size. If you delete files 
from the selected Share on your StorCenter ix2-dl , they are not automatically deleted from the 
cloud service. You can manually delete those files from the cloud service by clicking a command on 
the Amazon S3 page. 
 
 
How do I ... 
restore files with Amazon S3