Backup to Acronis-Cloud very slow

What is the upload capacity of ISP connection?
A Speed Test is sometimes not very accurate.

Should you have 10 Mb/s upload speed and you want to upload 330 GB it would need about 18 hours without retransmit of packages.
With 5 Mb/s you would need about 40 hours but with ISP connections you may have high retransmit rates. Should you be located in Europe your data stream suffers from high latency times also during the way over the atlantic and 48 hours or more would not surprise me.

Cloud backup makes sense starting with 100 Mb/s upstream speed. In my opinion makes sense for computers with a small network connection only if you backup your document folders but not for complete systems.

Thanks for sharing your experience. According specification I should have 10 Mb/s Upload (125 Mbit/s Download) and yes, I live in Europe/Switzerland.
So far I uploaded my backups to my NAS (directly connected to my PC) and was curious how long it would take to upload it to the cloud.

I rethink about using/buying extra cloud storage. Otherwise 330 GB is my initial Full-Backup and keeping my system backuped shouldn't take as long anymore. Then restore should be much faster with 125 Mbits/s download.

Yes, the restore will be faster and "propably" finished within 10-11 hours if you have luck and the restore process does tolerate rerouting and reconnection issues.
A Backup to the NAS is the most reasonable solution. You may use the cloud for backup jobs including your user folders only.

You are from Switzlerland? They have such a fine cloud solution right there: http://www.filesync.ch/uebersicht like Backup or Drive.
It is closer and the strict data security laws are more effectiv here because the servers are located mainly in Switzerland and Germany but never outside of the EU (Switzerland is an exception here)

So you can backup to your NAS and let the NAS mirror the backup saveset to filesync.

In the U.S., some ISPs (like mine) will throttle your upload bandwidth if they detect you are uploading very large amounts of data (e.g. over 50 or 100 GB? ) from a home network service (i.e. not business service) over a short period of time. Then, everything will become very slow to upload. If you continue, they will disconnect you from their network, and you will have to reboot your router to get back on their network.
I speak from experience, after having to switch to different cloud-based backup services/vendors, and having to re-upload over 150GB of data each time :(
Also, any time any cloud-based service advertises "unlimited storage space", they will stop doing it after a while and raise their fee.

Primarily I was wondering if there is an bottleneck with Acronis Cloud-Service or if my expectations were beyond the technical reality with 10 Mb/s upload. By the way, my upload is still running, 50 Hours used and remaining 10 Hours for 330 GB - even so, no disruption so far. ;-)

After all, I was blended by acronis advertising: 'Back up your entire disk image to the cloud – and then restore it in a snap whenever you need it.'

So, I think Lontro's hints make sense.

1. Backup/Restore the PC to/from local NAS (timecritical).
2. Backup the NAS to an Cloud-Solution for worstcase (not timecritical).

As by now, private users with standard ISP-conditions DO NOT: 'Back up your entire disk image to the cloud – and then restore it in a snap whenever you need it.'

My Thoughts on the subject..

Why would anyone want to backup their entire HD to the cloud.
First, you have to expect "upload" speeds to be slow.... Hours and Hours, maybe 10's of hours of upload time ??
Second, your putting "everything" on your HD on some companies server ?
Third, "Hopefully" everything will remain intact and you can actually get it back if needed ?

Now I can see a uploading a special folder or two for safe keeping but an entire HD of 80 -150 gig of or more ?? No Way

I think the more expedient, secure and safe method would be to purchase an external sata/usb HD and use it for backup storage.
Personally, I use 2ea (2 TB) external sata/usb drives for backup.
Drive 1 is used for daily/weekly backups from several computers.
Drive 2 is used for full image backups once a month and kept Off-Site.
A 190 gig full image backup takes about 20-25 minutes.... subsequent incremental backups takes 5 minutes...
I keep a Working and a Master image for each machine.

When everything turns to "poop", I know without a doubt (because I have tested many restore operations) that I can recover a single file or an entire HD image in about 30 minutes.

I would hate to think that I had to rely on a cloud image and my internet connection to restore my very important HD !

Regards,
Steve

@Steve:

I would not rely on an single HD and I would hate to think about making regularly manual copies of the backups and transport them Off-Site to an secure place - I'm too lazy ;-)

NAS (mine has 4 2TB HDs) is more secure then an single external HD (because of RAID), in my home network fast enough, easy to use and nowadays affordable.

But I agree, I would not backup to cloud anymore. But for the very worst case i will copy the backups to cloud.

Of course only swiss quality cloud solutions, secured deep in the swiss mountains ;-)

Regards,
Norbert

I have a different solution for my personal backup strategy.
AIT is used for backups of the Windows system for a quick re-install of the complete system after a disk failure or other reasons. This backup does not include any critical personal data. Critical and personal data are stored on a encrypted network share that my NAS (4x 3 TB/RAID5) provides.

The recovery of the Windows system is not depending on the system backup at all. In the worst case I have to install Windows by scratch.
The NAS itself saves it backups of the encrypted data into the cloud. The data is not readable in the web console and should the cloud provider "may" forget to encrypt on his side I will not care about this.

Unencrypted shared folders on the NAS are not pushed into the cloud. This forces me to decide what is important and what is not.
Sometimes even as a normal person you can suffer from "digital compulsive hoarding" which make your backup very large.

As a result my "cloud backups" are not larger than 4 GB even if my NAS stores more data (including AIT backups).

BTW, during writing this text I tried to avoid "backup" as a verb because I learned it is not a verb. The past tense of backup ("backuped") does not sound correct for me either. So would "back up" be correct or should "back-up" be used? I wonder how native speakers handle the verbification of the word backup.

Native speakers would either use "back up" all of the time, or they would only use "backup" as a verb if it worked. Otherwise, they would (I hope) break it up.

In the US, verbing a noun is a common and, IMNSHO, terrible practice.

As for backing up to the cloud, I reserve that for folders that contain critical data: data that needs to survive a catastrophe (flood, fire, nuclear holocaust). For the rest, I hope that my USB drive would survive.

If you are truly paranoid, there are drive cases that are fire- and waterproof.