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


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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.
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