Full w/reserve to local drives, then incremental to cloud thereafter?
How would I use TI Cloud Backup 2016 to achieve the following:
1. Full archival backup of my 500-gig Windows 7 C: drive. This is an eternal backup for data-hoarding purposes prior to wiping the drive and doing a clean installation of Windows 10. This backup will never be added to, and will only be restored from (maybe in its entirety, maybe a few files at a time, but almost certainly NOT under Windows 7 itself).
2. Full backup of my same 500-gig C drive after installing Windows 10, and a full backup of my 2-terabyte D drive... then both backup files copied verbatim to a second external drive that will be stored off-site.
3. Going forward... back up new/changed files daily to "the cloud". I'd love to do everything to the cloud, but uploading 2-3 terabytes of data for the initial full backup over the internet just isn't going to happen (not to mention, even at 7-12mbps upload speed, it would probably take a month to finish).
3a. Although both of the initial full backups will be stored disconnected (to protect them from ransomware), TI 2016 SHOULD at least keep a local catalog of the files it backed up (paths, lengths, hashes, etc), and SHOULD be able to keep that catalog on my D drive (as opposed to my too-small SSD)
Thanks!


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Acronis True Image supports in therory a backup that has pieces in different locations (for example, as your suggest, a local full backup, then the other partials somewhere else). You would edit the backup destination after the task has run the first time... But even then, you would have to edit back the task when the next full is up (because you know it is not good to have a long chain of incrementals...)
In practice though, this feature can be the source of many issues, that tend to show up when you restore data.
With ATI, don't edit tasks after they are created. Keep the destination of a task unchanged. Assign fixed drive letter to your destination disks so that precisely Windows always give the same drive letter to your detachable disks, and ATI don't err in thinking this is now a different disk...
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Steve already tackled most of these and I agree with his responses.
Jeff Skubick wrote:
3. Going forward... back up new/changed files daily to "the cloud". I'd love to do everything to the cloud, but uploading 2-3 terabytes of data for the initial full backup over the internet just isn't going to happen (not to mention, even at 7-12mbps upload speed, it would probably take a month to finish).
You're only other option would be to pay to "seed" the data by shipping physical disks for localy copy first. It would accomplish what you want, but at an extra cost. I know this is offered as a service for Backup 11.7/12, but I believe it can be purchased for the home products as well - best to contact technical support to verify if interested though.
https://kb.acronis.com/content/57604
Jeff Skubick wrote:
3a. Although both of the initial full backups will be stored disconnected (to protect them from ransomware), TI 2016 SHOULD at least keep a local catalog of the files it backed up (paths, lengths, hashes, etc), and SHOULD be able to keep that catalog on my D drive (as opposed to my too-small SSD)
Show me a home product that does and I might just buy it. Acronis, Macrium, EASUS, Paragon, Retrospect, Aomei, Crashplan.. none of these home backup products show every file that is backed up in a log file and they don't show the specific file changes in a log either.
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