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I'm a novice. Question about the first backup.

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Hello All,

Please help me to understand:

When I pause a backup and start it again does it continue or start from scratch every time?

 

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Dmitry, welcome to these public User Forums.

The answer to your question is going to be: 'It depends!'

It depends on where you are backing up to and what you are backing up and what else is / or has been happening on the computer during the time the backup is paused.

Typically it is not a good idea to pause a backup that is in progress but I understand that there can be times when that is necessary.

If you are backing up to the Acronis Cloud, then the backup should be able to resume without needing to start again from scratch, provided that the snapshot data created by Acronis for the backup has not been lost, deleted, overwritten etc.

If you are doing a local backup, then the same should apply but it is more likely that it could restart from the beginning and that an additional backup file might be created.

Thank you for the answer.

Yes, I'm backing up to the cloud and I need to pause because it slows down my connection during working hours.