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Acronis vmProtect - How to move the backup archives on other SMB share ?

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Hello dear support,
Hello community,

Actually a relatively trivial question. Are there any Problems if I move an Acronis archive to another location . My concern is to continue with the incremental backup to the new storage path.

We use vmProtect 8 and I would like to avoid it to build the archive from scratch.

In this context, I have a further question . The snapshot-based backup of vmProtect will first created a snapshot of the VM direct to the datastore. Only in the next step the snapshot will be copied to the archive.

Is this snapshot when you first save the Machine (Full ) is greater than the subsequent " incremental " snapshot. I ask the question for the reason that relatively little space is available on some datastores. Unfortunately, it has happened once before in the past, on a full DataStore the VMs were stopped by the ESX hypervisor with Acronis backup.

Sorry, my english is not the best

but

Thanks in advance!

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Hi Erik,

The backup archives are location-independent (except for Online Backup storage of course), so you can manually copy/move them to different storage and continue backing up into them incrementally (just edit the backup task and point to new archive location).

The physical snapshot size initially is close to 0 and it is increased in time while the snapshot lives. In other words the datastore space will be consumed (depending on the amount of changes done to VM) while the backup operation is active until it is finished and the snapshot is removed. Therefore since full backup takes more time - this snapshot will be typically bigger than during incremental backup (since snapshot life time will be less).

Thank you.
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Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis vmProtect Program Manager