 This paper discusses the systematization of experience in deploying, maintaining, and servicing a private academic cloud. The authors developed their cloud infrastructure based on Apache Cloud Stack and identified several key tasks related to it. These include changing the cloud infrastructure, monitoring and optimizing VM performance, migrating VM instances, managing VMs, backing up the entire cloud infrastructure, and analyzing productivity and providing students with computing resources. Additionally, the paper examines approaches and scripts for backing up the platform's databases and repositories, as well as evaluates the performance of these scripts when applied to the author's deployment of a private cloud infrastructure. This article was authored by Vassal P. Alexiuk, Olija R. Alexiuk, Oleg M. Spiron, and others.