Acronis Files Cloud: how to register storage
You can use Acronis Files Cloud with Acronis Storage (S3-compatible). This is the recommended configuration.
Alternatively, you can register Microsoft Azure Storage, Amazon S3, or other S3-compatible storages.
Prerequisites
When registering storage, have this information on hand:
Acronis Storage (S3-compatible)
- s3 access key id
- s3 secret access key
- storage address
- bucket name
- encryption type (aes128, aes 256) you want to use (optional)
Amazon S3
- s3 access key id
- s3 secret access key
- bucket name
- region (optional)
- encryption type (aes128, aes 256) you want to use (optional)
S3-compatible storages
- s3 access key id
- s3 secret access key
- storage address
- bucket name
- encryption type (aes128, aes 256) you want to use (optional)
Microsoft Azure
- azure account name
- azure access key
- azure blob container name
- encryption type (aes128, aes 256) you want to use (optional)
Registration
Using a special registration tool, register your storage:
1. Download and unpack the tool.
2. Run the tool, using this syntax (the command should be all lower-case):
infra-tool.py --action=register --host=<account server host URL> --login=<account login> --password=<account password> --infra-capability=files_cloud --infra-name=<name of storage to be registered> --infra-url=<url of the component to be registered>
where:
<account server host URL> is the host name of the account server in the data center where this account is registered
<account login> is the Acronis Data Cloud administrator account login and <account password> is the password for this account
<name of storage to be registered> is a human-readable name which will be used for this storage in the UI
<url of the component to be registered> is the URL of the storage. Please note that access keys and secrets containing special characters need to be individually URL encoded: '+' to '%2B', '/' to '%2F', '=' to '%3D', etc.
The URL can have one of these formats:
Acronis Storage (S3-compatible)
s3://<s3-access-key-id>:<s3-secret-access-key>@<storage-address>/<bucket-name>?encryption=<aes128|aes256>&use_ssl=<true|false>
Amazon S3
If the provided region is on that list with "Version 4 only", use the default endpoint address (s3.amazonaws.com).
amazon+s3://<s3-access-key-id>:<s3-secret-access-key>@s3-<region>.amazonaws.com/<bucket-name>?encryption=<aes128|aes256>&use_ssl=<true|false>
<region> is optional, for default region use s3.amazonaws.com address.
S3-compatible storages
s3://<s3-access-key-id>:<s3-secret-access-key>@<storage-address>/<bucket-name>?encryption=<aes128|aes256>&use_ssl=<true|false>
Microsoft Azure Storage
microsoft+azure://<azure-account-name>:<azure-access-key>@blob.core.windows.net/<azure-blob-container-name>?encryption=<aes128|aes256>