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Have there been any incident of Cyber Protect Home saving to the Acronis Cloud causing Windows 11 to crash?

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The last time that I set up a backup of my whole computer to the Acronis Cloud in one go -- about 270 GB spread across a 500GB SSD "C" Drive and a 1TB hard disk drive which I use for data, only -- I walked into the blue screen of death the next morning. Even with assistance from Lenovo, I finally had to reinstall Windows 11 and, then, all my programs.

I also use NordVPN.

Has anyone else had this happen? If so, then I'd like to know what you think caused it and how I can avoid the same mess, again.

 

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Chuck, I have not seen any similar problems being reported in the forums.

Personally, I would not recommend using 'Entire PC' to backup to the Acronis Cloud (or other storage destinations) when there are multiple disk drives involved.

I have always made separate backups of each individual disk drive for my own backup tasks - when a disk does fail or die, it is typically only one drive that needs to be replaced / recovered. Including multiple drives in the backup doubles the size of data and length of time needed for the task, especially uploads.

If your second disk drive is being used only for data, then you may also want to consider using a Files & Folders backup task for it, not a full Disks & Partitions one.

I have two PCs running Windows 11 that back up to the Acronis cloud and have not seen any issues (either with ATI 2021 or ACPHO). Like Steve, I never use "Entire PC" backups. I backup data separately, and do a Disk & Partitions backup on my system NVMe drives. I also do Folder + Files backup of data folders that have a lot of updates.

Ian