Cloud Backup Consuming a TON of Space
In a last ditch effort before I'm forced to find a different backup provider I wanted to see if anyone on this forum could help me.
I have an open case #03932638 where I have selected 3 folders for backup to the Acronis Cloud. The total size of all the data in the folders is 30 MB. The data rarely changes and the backup is set to run daily.
The Acronis Cloud storage screen shows the backup taking 1.73 GB of space! I don't understand how 30 MB of data can consume 1.73 GB of backup space.
I created a new backup of the same exact folders and Acronis Cloud shows it taking up 6 MB of space.
Acronis support told me that the backup taking up 1.73 GB of space is normal and they want to close the case.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Scott
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Steve,
I already escalated and had a manager contact me. I got this response from the tech today
"The test backup you have created does not have these number of slices. Unfortunately we can not delete the unique data. As I have already told you there is no technical issue. If this functionality does not suite you we accept it and respect your choice if you select refund.
Please let us know whether we should proceed with the refund or close the case as situation clarified."
I guess I gotta go find a new backup vendor. It sucks because I liked the features in Acronis..
Scott
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Scott, it seems as if they are saying that your problem Cloud backup has a very large number of 'slices' given the reference to your test backup not having such a number of slices!
My suggestion here would be to go ahead and delete the Cloud backup task that created the over large backup then give it time for any cloud cleanup to finish so that you can check that the space is recovered.
If the backup task being deleted does not return the 1.5GB of space then that is another matter to escalate with Acronis but hopefully it will do so!
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