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Backup to Acronis Cloud and Local Backup at the Same Time - Hyper-V

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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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Hi Matt,

There is possibility to perform backups replication into cloud on separate schedule independently from primary backup plan. Instead of configuring 2nd location in the main backup plan (to replicate backups), you should create separate backup replication plan from Plans -> Backup replication section in web console UI - see https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/AcronisCyberBackup_12.5/index.html#38952.html .

This backup replication plan can be performed by some different agent (not the one which performed the original backup) + it may have different retention rules than the original plan + it won't block new incoming backups into the same archive file while replication from it is performed, to handle scenarios where replication runs for a long time and doesn't finish until next backup kicks in on schedule.

Note that this feature requires at least 1 Advanced license to be available.

Thank you.