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UNDERSTANDING ACRONIS BACKUP Fundamental concepts in Acronis Backup and Acronis Backup Cloud Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 1

Module Outline 1. Components & Implementations 2. Storing Backups 3. Acronis Backup Cloud 3 rd Party Integrations 4. Navigating The Backup Console 5. Backup, Recovery and Other Operations Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 2

Components & Implementations Installable software components and types of deployment and implementations Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 3

1. 3-Tier Architecture Physical | Virtual | Cloud Applications | Users Agents Data Source On-premise | Cloud Backup Console & Management Management Server On-premise | Cloud Local, Network, Cloud, Storage Tape, Storage Node Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 4

1. List of Components Type Components ‒ ‒ Agent for Windows Agent for Office 365 Data Source ‒ ‒ Agent for Linux Agent for Exchange Install on machine or device to be backed up. Supports ‒ ‒ Agent for Mac Agent for SQL physical, virtual, cloud, applications and user devices (PC, Mac, iOS, Android) ‒ ‒ Agent for VMware (Windows) Agent for Active Directory ‒ ‒ Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance) Agent for Oracle ‒ ‒ Agent for Hyper-V Mobile app for iOS ‒ ‒ Agent for Virtuozzo Mobile app for Android Management ‒ Web-based Backup Console Install on-premise or use cloud-based management ‒ Management Server hosted in Acronis or partner datacenter Acronis Backup Acronis Backup Cloud Storage ‒ ‒ Local, Network, Cloud, SFTP, Tape Acronis Storage Gateway Store data on-premise or on cloud storage provided by ‒ ‒ Acronis Storage Node (ASN) Acronis Storage 2.x Acronis or Service Provider Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 5

1. List of Components Type Components ‒ ‒ Bootable Media Components for Remote Installation Ancillary ‒ ‒ Bootable Media Builder Catalog Service Additional components to enable additional features ‒ ‒ Backup Monitor PXE Service ‒ ‒ Command-Line Tool Acronis Monitoring Service ‒ Acronis SharePoint Explorer ‒ SQLite (built-in, by default) Management Server Database ‒ Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or later (external, customize install settings) Database for storing management data Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 6

1. Acronis Backup Cloud Data Source Data Center Management Servers Agents Service Perform backup, recovery and migration on Provider local, remote, cloud machines, applications Cloud Management and mobile devices Cloud Storage & Storage Management Management Server | Web-Based Console Connect using a browser to the cloud-based Management Server to configure and manage backups for all devices PC Network Storage Storage Physical Virtual Mac Cloud | Local | Network Server Host Web-Based Console Store backups on Acronis or Service Provider cloud storage, local disks and network Agents storage End-User Site Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 9

1. Acronis Backup Cloud Implementations Acronis Hosted Management PC Servers Physical Virtual Network Mac Server Host Cloud Management Storage & Storage Agents End-User Site Management Hybrid PC Servers Service Provider Physical Virtual Network Mac Server Host Cloud Management Storage Cloud Storage & Storage Agents End-User Site Management SP Hosted Servers PC Service Provider Physical Virtual Network Mac Server Host Cloud Management Storage &Storage Agents End-User Site Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 10

Storing Backups Supported backup locations for local and cloud backup Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 11

2. Storing Backups ‒ Backups can be stored on the following locations: ▪ Cloud Storage : Acronis datacenter or Service Provider cloud storage (Acronis Backup Cloud only) ▪ Local folder : Local disks and removable media such as USB HDD ▪ Secure Zone : Secure partition on a local disk accessible by Acronis software only ▪ Network folder : SMB/CIFS/DFS shares, NFS folders (Linux and Mac OS X only) ▪ SFTP : Secure FTP ▪ Storage Node : Storage location managed by an Acronis Storage Node, can be local disks, network folder or tape ▪ Tape : Tape device directly connected to the local machine or managed by Acronis Storage Node Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 12

2. Supported File Systems Supported By File System* Limitations Agents Linux-based Win-PE based Mac FAT16/32       NTFS All agents ‒ No limitations   ext2/ext3/ext4 HFS+ Agent for Mac   JFS ‒ Files cannot be excluded from a disk backup  ResierFS3 Agent for Linux ResierFS4  ‒ Files cannot be excluded from a disk backup    ReFS ‒ Volumes cannot be resized during All Agents a recovery    XFS ‒ Linux Swap  Agent for Linux No limitations * Software will automatically switch to sector-by-sector backup when backing up drives with unrecognized or unsupported file systems Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 13

2. Acronis Datacenters 14 Acronis Cloud Data Centers now More coming, it takes only 4 weeks to launch a new one Strong presence in Asia-Pacific: Singapore, Japan, Korea, Australia Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 26

2. Cloud Storage Implementations ‒ Service Providers on Hybrid and SP Hosted implementation model can setup their own cloud storage to store their customers’ backups ‒ Acronis provides proprietary storage software as part of the Acronis Backup Cloud solution: ▪ Acronis Storage Gateway : lightweight gateway software for easy and rapid deployment of cloud storage for Acronis Backup Cloud ▪ Acronis Storage 2.0 : Software-defined-storage for transforming low-cost commodity hardware into scalable fault-tolerant enterprise-grade storage ‒ Acronis Storage 2.0 can be used as a storage solution for storing data other than Acronis Backup Cloud backups: ▪ Usage is free when used for storing Acronis Backup Cloud backups, pay-per-use (per GB) when used for storing other types of data (block, object and file storage) Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 27

2. Cloud Storage Implementations Acronis Storage Gateway Acronis Storage 2.0 ‒ ‒ Supports the following storage backends: Supports local disks as storage backend with option of using SSD for caching to improve performance ▪ Local directory or mounted NFS ‒ Can be configured as Acronis Backup Cloud cloud storage, block ▪ Amazon S3 & S3 API-compatible storage such as Swisscom, (iSCSI), object (S3) or file* storage IIJ GIO and Cleversafe ‒ Fault-tolerance depends on chosen redundancy mode which uses ▪ Microsoft Azure either replication or erasure coding to prevent data loss: ▪ Openstack Swift ▪ 2 or 3 nodes: replication, 1 or 2 node failure with no loss ‒ No fault-tolerance, redundancy dependent on storage, i.e., local or ▪ 5 or more nodes: erasure coding, 2 node failure with no loss mounted NFS must be on RAID 1/5/6; vendor SLA for S3, Azure ‒ Typically only 1 installation of Acronis Storage 2.0 is needed – and Swift multiple clusters and storage tiers can be configured to cater to ‒ Each installation is limited to 1 storage backend connection with different usages multiple installations possible ‒ Requires 2 or more physical servers with min. 3 disks each for ‒ Requires 1 x physical or virtual machine for installation: installation: ▪ 2-4 (v)CPU, 4GB RAM or more, 100GB free disk space for ▪ Recommended: Intel Xeon E5-2620V2 or faster CPU with at logs least 1 core per 8 HDD, 16GB ECC RAM + 0.5GB per HDD, 4 ▪ Installed as Linux package on x86_64 RHEL 7 or CentOS 7 or more HDD/SSD (min. 1 DWPD, 10 DWPD recommended), 2 x 10Gbps NIC ‒ Serve up to 2Gbps of user traffic (50-100 simultaneous backups) ▪ Installed as Acronis Storage software on bare metal Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 28

Acronis Backup Cloud 3 rd Party Integrations Supported Service Provider automation platforms Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 29

3. Integration via RESTful API and APS ‒ Acronis Backup Cloud provides automation integration though packages and plugins for various management platforms ‒ Integration packages and plugins are based on either RESTful API or APS (Application Packaging Standard) ‒ Operations possible include but are not limited to: ▪ Selling customized backup-as-a-service based on Acronis Backup Cloud in addition to other cloud services such as hosting, connectivity, SaaS and IaaS ▪ Automating billing, customer provisioning and endpoint backup management via existing web portals and tenant webpages Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 30

3. Supported Platforms Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 31

Navigating the Backup Console How to navigate the web-based backup and account management consoles Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 32

4. Navigating Acronis Backup Cloud Consoles Switch to Groups Menu Usage summary Switch to Backup Management Group settings Switch between Groups Switch to Reports Menu Acronis Training and Certification – Authorized Use Only 33