Acronis Backup 11.5: To Disk, replicate to Cloud recommendations
We have Acronis Backup 11.5 with Cloud Subscription (2TB)
We have Windows 7 unit we want to image to disk and then replicate to cloud.
We traditionally have been doing a full image on first Sunday of month and all other days do a differential. With retention schedule to clear old backups when size exceeds 1.5TB. With this method we usually have multiple months of backups.
We have done this in the past, but didn't have cloud.
We know have cloud and configured same options, but not replicate to cloud. So my understanding is it will replicate the first image which could be fairly large to cloud. This could take a week to happen.
What happens the following day (while cloud replication still happening) and the first differential runs. Will no other backups run until the first backup job (cloud portion) finishes? Or will the disk side run and complete, but the cloud portion hangs until the other finishes or does it just try to go as well?
Lastly... what is recommended strategy? I would imagine since the full backups can be huge that maybe folks create a second backup plan that is strictly 1 full image and a bunch of incrementals that go to cloud... and never do another full for the cloud since it takes so long.
In our first example we do full image monthly so I am thinking this could be a problem if it takes a week to push it up.
Please share some wisdom on recommendations on making the cloud product useful and usable.
Thanks,
Greg

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