advice on how to backup and restore an S3 blobstore from a moment in time is not documented

Use Case

Customer upgrades Nexus Repository 3 that uses S3 blobstores to new product version. Several hours goes by and then detects a problem warranting rolling back the upgrade to the moment in time before the upgrade.

Based on Sonatype documentation, customer was expected to have an S3 backup of the blobstores to roll back to. However no advice is given by Sonatype on what method to use.

Expected

Customer wants Sonatype's advice in help on how to maintain and restore from a moment-in-time backup of the S3 buckets in this scenario, given that Sonatype also documents that this backup be present.

Tip

• Look in AWS S3 documentation for steps to restore S3 bucket to a moment in time
• Try it out and document the steps
• To configure nexus for s3 access on your machine, see aws-vault steps