Before storing our WAL files in the cloud, we'll need somewhere to put them. Create an account with one of the supported WAL-E services and create a storage location for files we'll be transmitting. For example, in Amazon AWS, we would select S3 and Create Bucket, and fill out a form like this:
We also strongly encourage setting up specific authentication credentials for this location to avoid unnecessary distribution of critical users or passwords for other portions of the application layer.
After this, we need to install some prerequisite libraries. WAL-E has recently undergone an overhaul and now depends on Python 3 and is ...
