4. Setting Up Backup Gateway

4.1. Important Requirements and Restrictions

  • When working with public clouds, Backup Gateway uses the local storage (inside the VM) as the staging area as well as to keep service information. It means that the data to be uploaded to the cloud is first stored locally and only then sent to the destination. Because of this, you must make sure that the local storage is redundant and permanent. Using temporary disks may result in data loss.
  • If you are to store backups in an Amazon S3 cloud, keep in mind that Backup Gateway may sometimes block access to such backups due to the eventual consistency of Amazon S3. It means that Amazon S3 may occasionally return stale data as it needs time to render the most recent version of the data accessible. Backup Gateway detects such delays and protects backup integrity by blocking access until the cloud updates.
  • Use a separate object container for each Backup Gateway cluster.

4.2. Creating Backup Gateway

Before you proceed, make sure that the destination storage has enough space for backups.

To set up Backup Gateway, do the following:

  1. On the INFRASTRUCTURE > Networks screen, make sure that the ABGW private and ABGW public traffic types are added to your networks.

  2. In the left menu, click STORAGE SERVICES > Backup storage.

  3. Select the node(s) to run the gateway services on and click Create gateway in the right menu.

  4. Select Public Cloud as storage type.

  5. Make sure the correct network interface is selected in the drop-down list. Click NEXT.

    If necessary, click the cogwheel icon and configure node’s network interfaces on the Network Configuration screen.

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  6. On the Public cloud parameters pane, select Amazon S3, the desired region, and fill out the keys and bucket information.

    Important

    The specified bucket folder must be writeable.

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  7. On the Volume parameters pane, leave volume parameters as they are.

  8. On the DNS configuration pane, paste the instance hostname in the DNS name field.

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  9. On the Register in backup software pane, specify the following information for your Acronis product:

    • In Address, specify the address of the Acronis Backup Cloud management portal (e.g., https://cloud.acronis.com/) or the hostname/IP address and port of the Acronis Backup Advanced management server (e.g., http://192.168.1.2:9877).
    • In Account, specify the credentials of a partner account in the cloud or of an organization administrator on the local management server.
  10. Finally, click DONE.

After setting up the Backup Gateway, log in to Acronis Backup Cloud and perform a test backup to the Amazon cloud to make sure that everything is working correctly.