Restore from Acronis Cloud via Bootable USB - How?
I have a laptop and am thinking about disaster recovery.
So I have a weekly incremental back up of my System, Windows and Data partitions as partitions to Acronis Cloud and have created a bootable True Image USB.
I have a Wifi connection.
If a software disaster happens on my hard disk, but hardware is functional, will I be able to boot the USB and restore from Acronis Cloud?
After booting the laptop via USB I have to somehow connect to Wifi to connect to Cloud to restore the backup.
How?


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+1 to Steve's suggestions.
Wired connection for recovery from the Cloud would also be my preference. I have done recovery from cloud via WiFi, but it was for HP Windows Tablet running Win 10 Home 32 with little software - internal storage only 32 gig, but it at least had wireless ac. If you are doing it with wireless ax then that would be a different story.
Ian
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Also, consider alternatives to the cloud for offsite backups. My own preference is to never use the cloud. Backup performance is generally dictated by upload speeds which can be rather limiting. Also, what if the failure you experience prevents internet access, or the cloud server is down, or the ISP is down.
I run backups on schedules to both my NAS and to an internal drive (C: and D: to G:). But for offsite, I backup to a USB drive and take it to the bank vault. If you have a job with a separate work location, that can be a nice place to store offsite backups. Or maybe grandma's (or grandkid's) house.
And for the offsite backups, I always create them from rescue media.
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