About Acronis Cyber Infrastructure

Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5, starting with Update 2, supports integration with Acronis Storage 2.3 or its later versions named Acronis Cyber Infrastructure.

Deployment

In order to use Acronis Cyber Infrastructure, deploy it on bare metal on your premises. At least five physical servers are recommended to take full advantage of the product. If you only need the gateway functionality, you can use one physical or virtual server, or configure a gateway cluster with as many servers as you want.

Ensure that the time settings are synchronized between the management server and Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. The time settings for Acronis Cyber Infrastructure can be configured during deployment. Time synchronization via Network Time Protocol (NTP) is enabled by default.

You can deploy several instances of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure and register them on the same management server.

Registration

The registration is performed in the Acronis Cyber Infrastructure web interface. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure can be registered only by organization administrators and only in the organization. Once registered, the storage becomes available to all of the organization units. It can be added as a backup location to any unit or to the organization.

The reverse operation (deregistration) is performed in the Acronis Cyber Backup interface. Click Settings > Storage nodes, click the required Acronis Cyber Infrastructure, and then click Delete.

Adding a backup location

Only one backup location on each Acronis Cyber Infrastructure instance can be added to a unit or organization. A location added at a unit level is available to this unit and to the organization administrators. A location added at the organization level is available only to the organization administrators.

When adding a location, you create and enter its name. Should you need to add an existing location to a new or different management server, select the Use an existing location... check box, click Browse, and then select the location from the list.

If several instances of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure are registered on the management server, it is possible to select an Cyber Infrastructure instance when adding a location.

Backup schemes, operations, and limitations

Direct access to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure from bootable media is not available. To work with Acronis Cyber Infrastructure, register the media on the management server and manage it via the backup console.

Access to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure via the command-line interface is not available.

In terms of available backup schemes and operations with backups, Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is similar to the cloud storage. The only difference is that backups can be replicated from Acronis Cyber Infrastructure during execution of a backup plan.

Documentation

The full set of the Acronis Cyber Infrastructure documentation is available on the Acronis web site.