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Cannot recover space on Acronis Cloud

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Hi

I created a backup on my Windows 7 PC using True Image 2016 and sent the backup to my Acronis Cloud account. The backup contained approx 50GB documents and 100GB pictures; this worked fine and - as far as I can see - all backed up files were present and available. This initail backup of 150GB then grew to around 225GB due to incremantal changes, etc.

Now, I am reviewing my photo collection and adding geo-coordinates; this means that I will create new versions of the files and this will take me over my 250GB Cloud limit.

So... I thought... what I shall do is: remove the pictures folder from my backup by modifying the 'source' on the PC and, then, reinstate the Cloud backup after I have completed the work (meantime, I still backup to my external HDD for security).

However, after removing the folders, my Cloud backup did not drop to the expected 50-75GB size. The pictures folder / sub-folders were still there.

So I tried Cloud Clean-up (taking the most aggressive option)... which made a difference but I still had 150GB of content on Cloud... and, sure enough, the pictures folder was still there.

OK... I am thnking it keeps the files even though the backup scope on the PC has changed... so I manually deleted the folder from Cloud online (using the on-screen cogwheel options for that item) and then re-ran the Clean-up. The pictures folder / sub-folders, etc are now gone so I cannot navigate to them but I still have 150GB of content on the Cloud.

How do I actually recover this space from Cloud? What did I do wrong?

[Should I completely delete the entire backup and then create a new one? Will that actually work?]

Thanks, Simon

 

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Hello Simon,

You will need to contact Acronis Support directly for issues with the Aronis Cloud as we have no access to any Cloud content from within this user forum.

See post: 18623: How to get Technical Support: Tips, Tricks and Useful Information for how to contact Support.

 

Ditto to Steve.

However, typcially deleting the backup on the system will free up the cloud space again - you can't get it back though, so be sure if you do try.

One time, I had a similar issue.  I deleted from the PC and it showed it gone, but cloud did not.  From the cloud I told it to only keep the last backup after that - took some time and said it was done.  It then took about 15 minutes to replicate but after that the job was in the PC side again and then when I told it to delete everything was gone that time.  This only happened once and since then, things have been fine with the new backup.  If you're stuck from your end though and this doesn't help, then technical support should be able to delete the existing data for you if that's what you want.