Looking for cloud backup service that won't cause TI to fail
I'm currently using True Image to create backups of my drives to a NAS. I then want to back those True Image backup files to a cloud service.
For the past year or two I've been using TI for imaging and Crash Plan to backup just the TI files, but TI would often fail and the only way I could get TI to finish that backup was to delete the backup files and start fresh. I got tired of doing that and looked a little closer and found that if Crash Plan was uploading the backup files to the cloud when TI was trying to do an incremental backup, the backup would fail.
I then disabled Crash Plan and installed a Cloud Sync program on my Synology NAS and configured it to continuously backup the TI files to AWS. Unfortunately the same thing just happened, TI has failed the same incremental backup three times in a row.
From what I've read, Carbonite will have the exact same issue.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can make this work? If I add the Cloud feature to True Image can I have it backup just the drive images, or will it only backup the drive images directly to the cloud? If I can, will it play nicely with itself or will I run into the same issue?
The only alternative I can see is to only do full backups so that whatever cloud service I use is far less likely to be uploading the same files that TI is trying to update.
Thanks in advance for any info.


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Addition,
Just wanted to add here that I let my experiment run to completion. After the Cloud Archive task completed the queued backup immediately ran and completed with validation. So it appears that using the application in this fashion performs as expected and no crash resulted. I would think that the app using scheduling would behave similarly so that if a running task was not completed at the start of another task the pending task would be queued to start upon completion of the first task.
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