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Follow-up: Can I "suspend" backup to cloud?

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This discussion thread (https://forum.acronis.com/forum/44553) suggested to me that the "Suspend" button when used would allow one to resume a backup rather than the backup starting over with the loss of all already-uploaded data. That discussion concerns True Image 2014.

I have tried suspending and resuming backups of all three types in TI 2015: Entire PC, disk, files. None worked. Each started over. While doing it, I was also logged in on the web interface and refreshing to check the backup sizes. That interface also indicated that the backups started over. I waited to suspend after each had uploaded hundreds of MB's. In one case, it was over 1 GB that had already been uploaded.

Today, we had a power outage where I am. Had I been 99.9% done with a full-system upload, I would have lost all of the uploaded data.

I've read other discussions on this as well. I too wished to suspend (pause and resume) uploads so I could run local incremental and/or differential backups, etc.

At the upload speed available that I have and with the fact that I must share the bandwidth with other applications to get my daily work done, uploading a full-system backup can take weeks. Being unable to pause to run local backups is a large and unacceptable risk to take in my view.

What is the latest information concerning this issue? Was the feature removed for 2015? Is it working for others in 2015? ...

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Same here. I paused my backup for 10 minutes and now it's started right back at the beginning again.

On AT 2016 on a Mac, the splash screen says if backup interrupted, it will resume where it stopped. There is also a Pause button. Anticipating shutting down, I Paused. When I restarted the Mac and AT, said backup failed and no sign of any of the files on cloud, so the software needs work, especially Mac version.

Any ideas that might make pausing safer?