Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloud - Administrator's Guide - Manual (Page 37)

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As a result, the organization administrator will see the backups of physical machines in the Acronis
Backup Advanced for vCloud interface. In case of a disaster, the organization administrator will be
able to recreate a physical server as a virtual machine in their vCloud organization.
1.10.2 Setting up deduplication
This section describes how to set up a storage in which data will be deduplicated across all
organizations, but users will see only backups from their organization.
Important Read the "Deduplication best practices" section of the Acronis Backup Help before setting up
deduplication.
Deduplication is supported by Acronis Backup Storage Node. The storage node requires a machine
with the following configuration:
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Multi-core processor with at least 2.5 GHz clock rate
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At least 32 GB of RAM
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A 64-bit Windows operating system
When using deduplication, consider changing the quota setting (p. 31) from Storage usage to
Backed-up data, because the storage usage statistics for a single organization cannot be separated in
this case.
To set up deduplication
1. On the machine that will act as the storage node, run the setup program of Acronis Backup
Advanced.
2. Install the storage node as described in the "Getting started with a storage node" section of the
Acronis Backup Help.
3. Create a number of user accounts on the storage node, one account per organization. Make sure
that these accounts are not members of the Administrators group.
4. Create a single vault with deduplication, as described in the "Creating a managed centralized
vault" section of the Acronis Backup Help.
To specify the backup storage
When enabling backup for an organization (p. 27):
1. Specify the vault in the bsp://ServerX/VaultName format (for example:
bsp://StorageNode/Backups).
2. Specify the user account for that organization.
1.10.3 Changing the backup storage
vCloud system administrators can change the backup storage assigned to an organization.
If the storage device runs out of free space and cannot be upgraded, you may want to migrate some
or all of the backup storages to a new device. Besides changing the storage paths, you need to move
the previously created backups to the new location. Otherwise, these backups will not be available to
the organization users. While the backups are being moved, all operations that require access to the
backup storage must be disabled. Access to other backup storages located on the same device may
slow down. For these reasons, we recommend notifying the organization users about the upcoming
maintenance.