Can home version of Acronis True Image 2017 backup NAS to Acronis cloud?
Can the home version of Acronis True Image 2017 backup NAS to Acronis cloud? I read somewhere that you need to have the business version. I'm interested in backing up my Synology NAS to the Acronis cloud.
-Thanks
Bernard, the simple answer is yes, ATIH 2017 can have a NAS drive or share as the Source selection, and you could back this up to the Acronis Cloud, but perhaps the more pertinent question here is to ask what size of data is going to be involved in such a cloud backup from your NAS?
Most Synology NAS employ RAID technology to help protect against single disk failures so that you could replace a failed drive and the NAS will rebuild the data on the new drive. I have a Synology NAS myself with 2 x 3TB WD Red drives installed, but I would not consider backing this up to the Cloud because the NAS is my backup device for the other devices on my home network, along with other local / removable drives that I use - though the main reason is the time that would be needed to backup 3TB of data, not to mention needing to purchase sufficient cloud storage to hold such data.
Cloud should never be your sole backup destination - this should form part of a more complex backup solution, i.e. using multiple different destinations, one of which is off-site for security against physical data loss due to fire, flood, theft etc.
Upload speed is a further consideration when using Cloud, my own ISP gives me upto 70MBps download rate, but only 5MBps for upload, which is not unusual.
Thanks for your reply. I do employ a multifaceted backup solution. I backup things to my Synology NAS, then backup the NAS to Amazon Glacier, and also Backblaze. I backup the NAS to Backblaze indirectly by cloning the NAS to an external USB drive connected to my desktop, and the attached USB drive is backed up to Backblaze. I just started backing up my laptop to the NAS using Acronis 2017. Works great! So I have a USB backup, a Backblaze backup, and an Amazon Glacier backup of last resort. I was considering replacing Amazon Glacier with Acronis Cloud, however I do feel I'm in a good position with my current backup strategy.
Bernard, it sounds like you have this covered very well with your existing backup strategy, the one extra step that you should take is to create and test the Acronis bootable Rescue Media to ensure that should you need to recover any of your computer backups from the NAS, that you will be able to do so.
Bernard, it sounds like you have this covered very well with your existing backup strategy, the one extra step that you should take is to create and test the Acronis bootable Rescue Media to ensure that should you need to recover any of your computer backups from the NAS, that you will be able to do so.
That raises another question -- I'm backing up my Windows 10 laptop to my Synology NAS. Now if I needed to restore this image on my NAS to my laptop, how would I go about getting the image from the NAS so it can be restored to the laptop?
-Thanks
Bernard, this is exactly why you need to create and test the Acronis Rescue Media so that you can confirm that this type of recovery is possible.
The first point to note is that you should connect your laptop via a network cable for such actions - this is much easier than attempting to connect via wireless as the rescue media has very limited support for such devices.
Once you have booted the Rescue Media you should check your network connectivity to see what other network devices you can see. You may want to consider creating the Windows PE version of the Rescue Media instead of using the standard media which is based on a Linux distribution. The Windows PE media which uses the Windows 10 ADK has a lot more broader support for more devices etc.
See KB document: 45331: Acronis Bootable Media: Troubleshooting NIC Detection which has some good suggestions.
One further point is to ensure that you boot the Rescue Media in the same way that your Windows 10 boots, i.e. if the OS boots using the EFI bootloader then so should the Acronis media.
See webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS for help in this area.
Bernard, this is exactly why you need to create and test the Acronis Rescue Media so that you can confirm that this type of recovery is possible.
The first point to note is that you should connect your laptop via a network cable for such actions - this is much easier than attempting to connect via wireless as the rescue media has very limited support for such devices.
Once you have booted the Rescue Media you should check your network connectivity to see what other network devices you can see. You may want to consider creating the Windows PE version of the Rescue Media instead of using the standard media which is based on a Linux distribution. The Windows PE media which uses the Windows 10 ADK has a lot more broader support for more devices etc.
See KB document: 45331: Acronis Bootable Media: Troubleshooting NIC Detection which has some good suggestions.
One further point is to ensure that you boot the Rescue Media in the same way that your Windows 10 boots, i.e. if the OS boots using the EFI bootloader then so should the Acronis media.
See webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS for help in this area.
Thanks, I'll be sure to test and ensure I can see the Acronis image on the NAS from the rescue drive!
Just FYI on restoring a NAS backup as well - security permissions. I've seen people try to restore files from their NAS backup to the PC or vice-versa and it fails because they are including the original security permissions, but security permissions are not cross-platform (try to robocopy from your Windows PC to a NAS folder, need a couple of switches to remove the security there as well).
You can restore the files withotu the original security permissions though and they will take on whatever persmissions are set at the restore location.