Backup based on Acronis solution

The backup process is more flexible and reliable than snapshots for several reasons:

• Creating snapshots is usually a manual process. Backups are made regularly and the process is automated (at least once a week or at least once every 10 minutes).
• A large number of snapshots grows make a large snapshot tree that is difficult to manage (for example, deleting old snapshots is quite time-consuming), damage inside the snapshot chain destroys the entire chain.
• The abundance of images ultimately degrades the performance of the virtual machine itself (since the contents of its disks become smeared over many files on the side
• Snapshots are stored in the same place as the virtual machine disks themselves, thereby, this confronts the idea of ​​backup (keep a copy of the source data away from them).
• Acronis backups take up less space than snapshots, because they only store those file system blocks that really have data within them; snapshots keep track of the entire disk and potentially with all junk of long-deleted data.
• Acronis Backup allows to compress a backup file and encrypt its contents at the agent level.

Client has the option to encrypt his information for backup with his own key.

Configuration is available in the Self-Service portal or directly in the agent.

All backups are transferred/restored via SSL.

Cloud storage stores backups in the form of objects that are strongly tied to relevant client organization.

The solution is deployed based on a configuration with 3+2+1 redundancy at the cluster node level. For example, a cluster consists of 6 nodes, each node has 48 disks, the configuration is such that we are ready to lose 3 cluster nodes, without losing information, 1 cluster node without loss of performance or ready to lose 144 disks without data loss or 48 disks without loss of performance.

Each cluster node is a physical server, with an independent disk and computing subsystem between the nodes.

The servers are physically located in separate racks, with double redundancy in power and communication channels.

Servers are physically located in a Tier 3 certified data center.