Backup to Acronis Cloud and Local Backup at the Same Time - Hyper-V
Hi All,
I work for an MSP and have setup and supported Veeam environments before. For clients with large amounts of data we were able to run local backups while, at the same time, running initial backup seeds to cloud storage. Cloud copy jobs would pause during local backup and resume automatically once the local job was finished.
With Acronis, running either local agents or Hyper-V agents, only one job can run at a time per backup source. Meaning if a client has a high rate of data change the cloud backup can prevent local backups from running. Whereas with Veeam the local backup would pause the cloud copy, run, then the cloud copy job would resume. To ensure we always had a recent copy on-prem at least.
We have tried the command line seed method but it requires manual care and feeding. If there is a large amount of data to seed then we need to spend time on "care and feeding" to make sure the seed resumes if some one logs the local session off or if updates reboot it. Veeam would just do this for us. Set the backup and cloud copy job, walk away.
I think that we must have this wrong, there has to be a way to protect a single hyper-v VM with on-prem and acronis cloud backups without having on-prem jobs halted waiting for cloud jobs to finish. TO top it off we have a client with 600/600 up/down internet and the most we see from Acronis cloud backups is 30Mbps. A tough number with 4TB of data to seed.
I am sure we are missing something in our setup. There is no way that Acronis can compete with Veeam without allowing pausing of cloud copy jobs to ensure local backups still run.
Where are we going wrong?
Thanks!

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