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I am running TI 2019 and am happy with it. I received an email today offering TI 2020 plus 250gb of storage space at an attractive price but then I looked more into it, I make two images a week of about 160GB per image, surely after one image I would be out of space? Is it possible, after making the first image, to have TI just update that image without trying to send another one up to the cloud. Also, I do not like signing up for perpetual fees.

Peter

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When you make a cloud backup to the user it resembles an incremental local backup - only those sectors on the disk that have changed are uploaded. You also need to consider the time it takes to do the initial backup - 160gig would take me about 8 hours with my Cable internet connection (95Mbps/35Mbps). If you have upload speed on 2Mbps rather than 35Mbps it would could take over a week.

Also, it appears that they are offering subscription upgrade, so you will be up for annual upgrade fee that you need to consider. Two or three times a year Acronis has sales where you can get a good price. In the past you could add the new serial number and at some point you are asked if you want to extend the existing subscription to include the new one.

Once the subscription expires you will be able to recover backups created - however any cloud backups will be deleted some time after the subscription expires. I understand that it will still be possible to use recovery media to create new backups - but you may need to create it before the subscription expires.

Ian

In addition to Ian's comments, keep making local backups of you go for it. Cloud is a supplemental off-site IMHO. Local backups are by far the fastest and easiest to access when things go wrong, but having off-site can help of local backups fail. 

If you want to stick with a perpetual license, you can just use the upgrade option to see what pricing looks like too. For the general functionality, I don't see much advantage of upgrading to 2020 at this time though. Still has some bugs and a learning curve with a newer .tibx file format. I'm still running 2019 on my main rig and likely will keep it until later this year or until I see a vast improvement with 2020 or even if that means waiting to see what 2021 might bring. I like True Image a lot, but have not seen a motivation to migrate 

https://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/upgrade-backup/