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I am using Acronis cyber protect latest version (2023)

I have 2 harddisk drives in a Dell 8930 XPS desktop computer, 2 new disk drives were installed in this computer a few months ago.
Disk drive sizes and properties 4-2-23

C  is 476 GB
149 GB is used,
326 GB history NTSF
 
D is 1.81 TB, NTSF
22.2 GB used,
1.79 TB 3

When I have made up a cloud backup of both drives in one backup, the backup takes more than 3 days and usually fails. The local backup is no problem, except that he gets behind cloud backup and sometimes never happens.

problem 1:
I want to make a cloud backup of both my installation partition in my current documents which is on a different disk.

What is the best way to handle this? I realize I don't really have to back up the C partition very often maybe weekly or less often. I would like to back up The D (data) disk drive every night. [I also make a local backup of both drives. But that doesn't take very long. I created a backup every 5 backups. I don't have trouble with that. It is the cloud backup that takes up so much time.]

2nd issue is that I would like to backup parts or all of my "2nd copy" files which are as files, all of the data files from the previous disk drive that failed. I don't necessarily have to back up all of them, I could pick out which ones are the most important and those which would have long filenames. But the file itself is all full of other files. I would prefer them to be backed up as an image so that long filenames are not a problem. Currently, this back up of my old drive exists as to copies onto external disk drives, (2 copies). I lost an Acronisstopped backup of this comptter because I unintentionally erased that drive when I was creating a rescue disk under Acronos.

Properties of that file: 
ScndCpy89 (#3)185 GB  (198,911,746,596 Bytes) 198 trillion
size on disk 185 GB; (199,232,602,112) bytes
contains 178,264 files in 9611 folders

 

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Susan, my personal recommendation would always be to make separate backups of disk drives and not combine these together as that allows for better scheduling of backups according to your typical usage patterns and change frequency for data.

Having both local and cloud backups is a good strategy to use but the latter will always be the slowest to reach completion as is subject to your network and upload speed, so if such a cloud backup is active it will cause any local backups to queue behind it if their scheduled backup time occurs during that active cloud backup.

For your D: data disk backup, again you may want to consider whether you can divide this into multiple separate backup tasks according to the data which has the greatest frequency of change versus other data that has minimal change.

When you speak of '2nd copy' files, do you mean Acronis backup files in .tib or .tibx format?  If so, then these are always excluded from all backups by default and are best not to try to include these due to the dependencies they can have on metadata linkages etc.

If you want to make this type of 2nd copy of important files, then you would probably be better served to collect them in a different type of archive (not Acronis) such as a zip container.  Also if you have other cloud storage of sufficient size, i.e. using Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or similar service, then you could use that as a 2nd copy destination.