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Can I restore a disk backup from cloud storage using bootable media?

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I have a failing 1TB laptop drive and purchased a replacement drive yesterday.  I tried to use Acronis' cloning function (old drive in an enclosure, new drive in the laptop, bootable USB flash storage), but the cloning failed because of bad sectors on the old drive.

Can I reinstall the original (failing) drive, do a full disk backup to Acronis cloud storage, then use the bootable USB to restore from the cloud, with the new drive installed in the laptop?  Something I read seemed to indicate that cloud storage wasn't available from bootable media.

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If your attempt to clone the failing 1TB laptop drive failed due to bad sectors, then any attempt to create an Acronis backup image to the cloud or any local drive is very likely to give the same result and fail due to the bad sectors too.

As far as I understand you can restore an Acronis cloud backup using the Acronis bootable recovery media providing you have a network connection from the laptop to your broadband router that is recognised by the boot media, the best method being to use an ethernet cable to your router rather than using Wi-Fi due to the size of such backup images to be downloaded.

If you have an older backup image of your laptop drive, you could try restoring that to your replacement drive using the Acronis bootable media.

If you have no other backup image, then I would recommend trying to make a local backup image of the failing drive while it is still accessible, even if this means taking the option to ignore bad sectors.  Backup to an external USB hard drive as this will give you a much faster recovery than uploading / downloading to the Cloud.

The backup image would give you some options for recovering some of your data even after the original failing drive has died as you would be able to mount the image and explore it then use copy / paste as needed.

I have not found an option in the bootable media to restore from a could backup - perhaps I'm missing it though.  You can restore from the cloud from any machine that has access to the Internet thoguh so if you had access to another system, you should be able to restore from it to a drive that way.

I would recommend not using the Cloud as your only backup location.  A sound backup plan will incorporate the 3-2-1 method... 3 copies of the data - at least 2 different backups of the same data... at least one of those copies is offsite.

In most cases, a local backup will be much faster and easier to backup and recover from.  However, if something happens to that backup (drive fails, corruption, fire, flood, theft, etc), then you're not up a creek without a paddle if you have a Cloud backup or other offsite backup to fall back on... although it will be slower to recover from.