APS 2.0 Deployment Guide

1 About this guide

This document describes how to deploy the Acronis Backup Cloud application in your Odin Service

Automation infrastructure.

Acronis Backup Cloud is a proven, comprehensive, local and cloud backup and recovery service for

service providers. Acronis Backup Cloud backs up data from any source, stores data locally, in the

cloud, and lets you recover to any destination and system.

The application is provided as an Application Packaging Standard (APS) package.

2 Audience

This document is intended for service providers who want to provide the Acronis Backup Cloud

service to their customers.

3 Terms and abbreviations

This document uses the following terms and abbreviations:

 Application Packaging Standard (APS)

An open standard that is intended to help service providers to provide software as a service

(SaaS) applications to customers.

 Odin Service Automation (OSA)

A software platform that includes Operations Automation and Business Orchestration.

4 General architecture and services

The application enables the service provider to provide the backup service to customers, who then

provide it to their users.

The service provider charges each customer based on one or more counters, such as the amount of

backup storage. It does not matter how customers themselves charge their users.

The service hierarchy for the backup service is the following:

 Backup Service

The backup service.

 Backup Tenant

Group in Acronis Backup Cloud, created per subscription with backup service.

 Backup Users

The number of the customer's users who can use the backup service.

 Cloud Storage

The total amount of backup storage that is available to all of the customer's users.

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