To have BackupEDGE back up to Amazon using Amazon DevPay, you must: 1 Create an account on http://www.amazon.com.
2 Make sure you add Amazon Web Services to the Amazon Account. 3 Register with Microlite Corporation for Amazon S3 services at
http://www.microlite.com/s3_devpay/s3register.html.
4 Browse to the special URL on Amazon payments and associate BackupEDGE with Amazon S3. by acknowledging the pricing and clicking [Place your order].
5 Create an Activation Key.
6 Copy or paste the Activation Key into EDGEMENU within one hour. This key is used to create a secure connection between your server and will download the Security Keyset
BackupEDGE uses when authenticating with Amazon. Note that the Activation Key may be
re-generated and copied into BackupEDGE at any time if more than one server is associated with the account, or if BackupEDGE must be removed and re-installed.
7 Create BackupEDGE AWS (Amazon Web Services) Resources.
Registering with Microlite Corporation.
Browse to http://www.microlite.com/s3_devpay/s3register.html. Click on “Register to Activate
Fill out the registration form, and click Continue. It is MOST IMPORTANT to indicate the serial number of the BackupEDGE license that will be used with Amazon Web Services.When you click [Continue] you’ll get to a special Microlite URL:
Click the green [Amazon Web Services] button to get to the Amazon Web Services (for
Getting an Amazon S3 Activation Key
When you’ve clicked the green [Amazon Web Services] button from the Microlite Launch
Page, you’ll get the following screen.
You must have a valid amazon.com account in order to access Amazon Web Services. • Type your email address
• Click [I am a returning user and my password is:], type your password and click [Sign in using our secure server].
NOTE: If for any reason you forgot to add Amazon Web Services to your Amazon account, you’ll be prompted to do so now. See “An unlimited number of Policies may be created within Amazon S3, but one of the three above are sufficient for many users.” on page 126 for additional information on this process. When complete, you’ll need to close your browser and go back into Amazon through the Microlite registration screen using this URL:
Next, an acceptance screen for Microlite BackupEDGE. By clicking on the “Place your order”
button you are agreeing to the displayed monthly charges and the Amazon Payments “Billing Services Agreement”.
You will get an acknowledgement and thank you:
Click the word “here” in the sentence “Please click here to get activations keys for all applications to which you are subscribed”.
Generate an Activation Key
When you click the word “here” in the sentence “Please click here to get activations keys for all applications to which you are subscribed”, you’ll get this screen:
Click on [Generate Key].
Click on “Generate Key” at the Key generation menu.
You will receive an Activation Key that is good for approximately one hour. It must be typed into
BackupEDGE EDGEMENU by then. This one-time process downloads the authentication keys
used by BackupEDGE to communicate with Amazon Web Services automatically when necessary.
Enter the Activation Key into EDGEMENU
Within ONE HOUR of generating the Activation Key, you must launch EDGEMENU, go to
Setup -> Configure BackupEDGE -> Configure Amazon DevPay Backups, and type or
paste in the key.
The first time you activate a copy of BackupEDGE with your Amazon Activation Key, a unique storage area is created on Amazon DevPay under your account. This is called a “bucket”, and all of the directories you create are actually just file names in your bucket. No files other than those created by BackupEDGE should ever be stored in this bucket.
If you “Cancel the use of Microlite BackupEDGE” on Amazon Payments, or cancel your
entire account, stored data will be forever lost. However, if you keep the account and, for example, remove and re-install BackupEDGE, it is possible at any time to generate a new Activation Key and enter it into EDGEMENU. BackupEDGE will re-authenticate to Amazon Web Services, download the Security Keyset, and find your bucket again automatically.
Create a BackupEDGE AWS Resource.
After EDGEMENU installs the Security Keyset, you will be asked if you want to create an AWS Resource.
The default backup directory is “/backups”, which is in reality stored in the BackupEDGE-created storage bucket within your Amazon account.
+Amazon DevPay Activation---+ |Please Enter The Amazon DevPay Activation Code. | | | | | | | | | |[MZRAFHZWNAZ7I442ANVN7E26EXE5 ]| | | |[Activate] [Cancel]| +---+
NOTE: When [Activate] is selected, this key is used to create a secure connection between
Amazon DevPay and your server and download the Security Keyset BackupEDGE uses
when connecting with Amazon DevPay. Note that this key may be re-generated and copied into BackupEDGE at any time if more than one server is associated with the account, or if
BackupEDGE must be removed and re-installed.
+ BackupEDGE Resource Information ---+ |- General Resource Information ---| |Resource Type Amazon DevPay Resource | |Resource Name [aws0 ] Change as appropriate | |Description [Amazon DevPay Resource ] | |Changer Assoc [Standalone Device] | |Interface [Other ] | | | |-Amazon DevPay Resource Information ---| |Directory [/backups ] [Test URL] | |DevPay EndPoint s3://s3.amazonaws.com | |Lazy Reclamation [X] | | | | | | | |- Default Backup Properties ---| |Quota [100G ] [S] Compression Level [5] | |Edge Block Size [64 ] [Y] Double Buffering | ¦[Next] [Prev] [Cancel]¦ +---+
As with URL Resources, we recommend that you set the directory to reflect your system name and schedule name. Here is an example of an AWS Resource set for use with the default backup scheduled (simple_job) for system web2v.
Testing the AWS Resource
Test the AWS server connection from the machine with BackupEDGE installed. The
[Test URL] button uses the information on the AWS Resource screen to create a connection
with Amazon DevPay and test transferring files back and forth to the appropriate directory. If a failure occurs, the reasons will be displayed on the screen to help with debugging. For reference, a copy of the most recent test failure log (if any) will be saved in the file
/usr/lib/edge/tmp/testurl.log.
Initialize the AWS Resource
When you press [Next] to save the resource, you will be asked if you want to ‘Initialize’ it. You
must let BackupEDGE initialize the resource. This tests the connection again and creates a control file named CTL in the destination directory. To initialize at a later time, use
edgemenu:Admin->Initialize Medium. Note that initializing the resource will not erase any
existing backups. If existing backups exits, the CTL file, which contains information about the
individual archive segments, will be re-calculated.
Selecting the AWS Resource
Select the AWS Resources as you would any other resource in EDGEMENU or in the Scheduler. When you set up a new schedule, it's a good idea to use
edgemenu:Verify->Show Archive Label to see how many archives are actually present after a
few days and check the amount of space used.