Acronis Autotask User Manual

Acronis Cyber
Infrastructure 3.0

Backup Gateway Quick Start Guide for
Amazon S3 and EC2

November 26, 2019

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Contents

1. About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. Launching Acronis Cyber Infrastructure Instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

3. Obtaining Password and Logging in to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

4. Setting Up Backup Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4.1 Important Requirements and Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4.2 Creating Backup Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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CHAPTER 1

About This Guide

This guide explains how to set up Backup Gateway on Amazon to store backups in the Amazon cloud.

Briefly, you will need to do the following:

1. Deploy an instance with Acronis Cyber Infrastructure from an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on Amazon

EC2.

2. Obtain the password and log in to the Acronis Cyber Infrastructure admin panel.

3. Set up Backup Gateway to work with the Amazon cloud.

All these steps are described in the next chapters.

Note: Common tasks related to Backup Gateway are described in the more general Backup Gateway Quick

Start Guide:

• Connecting to Public Cloud Storage via Backup Gateway

• Migrating Backups from Older Solutions

• Monitoring Backup Gateway

• Releasing Nodes from Backup Gateway

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CHAPTER 2

Launching Acronis Cyber Infrastructure Instance

First, you need to create and launch an instance with Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. Do the following:

1. In the AWS Console Home, click Launch a virtual machine and search for “Acronis Cyber

Infrastructure” on the AWS Marketplace.

2. Click Select by the found AMI.

3. On wizard step 2, choose the t2.medium type for the instance.

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