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For Acronis TI 2014, I have some questions about non-stop backup.

1. How does it compare to Windows 8 file history? What's the advantage of using this instead of windows 8 file history?

2. Is there a limitation on the media. If I have a 128 Gb SD card formatted as NTFS, I would be able to backup the data files on the hard disk?

3. What are the the typical file sizes generated. Is there any compression? If I have a lot of Microsoft word files that's roughly 20 Gb in total size, can I expect the backup to be smaller than 20 Gb?

4. Can the backup files be encrypted so if someone steals the backup media, they can't access the data?

5. What happens if the drive gets disconnected during a backup? Can it restart where it left off?

Paul

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Paul Siu wrote:
For Acronis TI 2014, I have some questions about non-stop backup.

1. How does it compare to Windows 8 file history? What's the advantage of using this instead of windows 8 file history?

Very different technologies. Windows file history doesn't have a partition option that ATI NSB has. This option allows you to restore your system on a bare disk. Windows, however, stores the files without compression and without any proprietary container. The file history also features nice retention rules that ATI NSB doesn't have.

2. Is there a limitation on the media. If I have a 128 Gb SD card formatted as NTFS, I would be able to backup the data files on the hard disk?

You will have to try your particular card, but it should work. Not sure why you would use an SD card for store backups... A USB disk is cheaper and as good for that...

3. What are the the typical file sizes generated. Is there any compression? If I have a lot of Microsoft word files that's roughly 20 Gb in total size, can I expect the backup to be smaller than 20 Gb?

Hard to answer the typical file size question. I don't know whether NSB uses compression for sure, I would guess it does. If you have work of art or work of trade to backup, I wouldn't use NSB alone. I would also backup using file history as a redundant backup.

4. Can the backup files be encrypted so if someone steals the backup media, they can't access the data?

It doesn't look like you can encrypt NSB files the way you can other backup types in ATI 2014. To secure your backups, you can encrypt the disk on which they are stored. Note that you would not be able to use the Acronis recovery medium to access the backup. That would be an issue if you wanted to backup a system partition. If you always restore from Windows, it is not an issue.

5. What happens if the drive gets disconnected during a backup? Can it restart where it left off?

No it doesn't. It will attempt to restart the backup next time.

So, 12/29/2013 - 23:31
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I agree that File history and NSB is different technology, but how does it work and how does it compare with each other? As far as I can tell, file history just save copies of file in separable folders where NSB uses a single file. This means that the file history may be faster but uses more space.

I wanted to use SD card because the machine is a laptop and you can't always carry around an external drive. The idea is to use NSB to backup the data continuously so that when there is a oops, you can use NSB to restore to a particular version of the file.

I found the menu and it indicated that there is compression. Encryption appears to be problematic.

Mo, 12/30/2013 - 10:54
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