4. Connecting Acronis Backup Software to Storage Backends via Acronis Backup Gateway¶
Note
If you are going to migrate your Acronis Storage Gateway, skip the steps described in this chapter and proceed to Migrating Backups from Older Solutions.
The Acronis Backup Gateway storage access point (also called “gateway”) is intended for service providers who use Acronis Backup Cloud and/or Acronis Backup Advanced and want to organize an on-premise storage for their clients’ backed-up data.
Acronis Backup Gateway enables a service provider to easily configure storage for the proprietary deduplication-friendly data format used by Acronis.
Acronis Backup Gateway supports the following storage backends:
- Acronis Storage clusters with software redundancy by means of erasure coding,
- NFS shares,
- public clouds, including a number of S3 solutions as well as Microsoft Azure, OpenStack Swift, and Google Cloud Platform.
While your choice should depend on scenario and requirements, it is recommended to keep Acronis backup data in the local storage cluster. In this case, you can have the best performance due to WAN optimizations and data locality. Keeping backups in an NFS share or a public cloud implies the unavoidable data transfer and other overhead, which reduces overall performance.
Note
- When configuring Acronis Backup Gateway, you will need to provide the credentials of your administrator account in the Acronis backup software.
- In cases when not local but external storage (e.g., NFS) is used with Acronis Backup Gateway, redundancy has to be provided by said external storage. Acronis Backup Gateway does not provide data redundancy or perform data deduplication itself.