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Pause backup to cloud storage and resume later?

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Hi,

I started a brand new backup of my file system to Acronis Cloud storage on Friday night. It did not finish in time for work on Monday morning, and the bandwidth usage was negatively impacting the end users. I had to cancel the backup, which is obviously not good. 

I could only see commands to cancel, and nothing to pause the backup to resume it later. Is this possible? 

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Hello Roth!

You can't resume backups. You could however set network throttling during business hours to avoid hogging up all the bandwith. You could also backup to a local storage first so it finishes faster, and replicate to cloud later (if you have advanced licence).

Also how much data are you backing up? What bandwidth do you have available?

-- Peter

Hi Peter,

Thank you for the advice. I will check the documentation on replicating a local backup to the cloud storage. I already do backups to local storage, so this might be the best option. 

I looked for throttling options in the help files but must have missed it, I'll check documentation again for that. 

My local backups are about 2.8 TB and I have 100mbps up, which I know is not a lot. 

Hello Roth!

Take a look at the attachment where this setting is. In the documentation it's called "Performance and backup window".

That said 100mpbs seems deeply undersized for 3TB volume. A quick calculation can confirm that with 50mbps it would take 5 days to transfer 2,8TB.

You could try splitting the data into multiple plans, then have them continue on workdays at a reduced speed. Or configure an acceptable bandwith usage and just wait. If you make incrementals this will only take this long once.

-- Peter

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Péter Szatmári wrote:

Hello Roth!

Take a look at the attachment where this setting is. In the documentation it's called "Performance and backup window".

That said 100mpbs seems deeply undersized for 3TB volume. A quick calculation can confirm that with 50mbps it would take 5 days to transfer 2,8TB.

You could try splitting the data into multiple plans, then have them continue on workdays at a reduced speed. Or configure an acceptable bandwith usage and just wait. If you make incrementals this will only take this long once.

-- Peter

 

Thank you Peter, I will follow this advice. I have configured the "Performance and backup window" settings.