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Acronis Cyber Protect 15 - Storage Node Performance and Design

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Hello, I need to understand how the storage nodes work with our Acronis Cyber Protect setup. We currently have our Acronis services setup on-premise and storage node on an on-premise server. We need to move the Acronis Management services to a hosted server on the cloud, but keep the on-premise storage node (on-site)

Question is how does this impact performance, and how does Acronis Cyber Protect handle the backup operations (I/O) when it runs a backup? Also, can we use a NetGear ReadyNAS to process and store the backups, but have the Acronis management server and console on a cloud server that only handles management and services? We want to keep the improved performance of a on-premise/on-site storage node, but Acronis management services on the cloud. Do the agents push the backups to the storage node directly or do they go through the Acronis management server first for any data that gets backed up? Ideally we would have the agents that are on-site complete backups to the storage node on-site without doing any process or I/O operations to and from the Acronis management server.

Please let us know so we can configure an architecture that best uses this configuration. Thank you.

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Hello!

The mangement server isn't involved with backup i/o. It pushes and enforces plans, licenses and reports on activities. The storage node service is only involved if the backup location is actually managed by that storage node. If it's anything else the backup agents will communicate with the storage directly.

Can't comment on whether the NAS can have an agent installed, but it can be the actual storage that would be managed by a storage node service running elsewhere.

Here's some info on best practices: https://dl.acronis.com/u/pdf/AcronisCyberProtect_15_Best_Practices_en-U…

-- Peter