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I have Acronis True Image 2016.

I find Acronis backing up to the cloud is slow.

Is there a way I can backup to the cloud and to my external hard drive?

Thanks!

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Hi, 

Yeah, sure!

You can backup both to the cloud and to the external hard drive, but you will have to create two backup plans. Here is a tutorial how to create backup plans. If you have any questions, please, ask. 

Cloud is incredibly slow. While I can still backup locally, once the Cloud backup started, the local backups are suspended. So while it is taking my SSD of 250 GB over a week to be backed up, my other internal drive is not backed up and neither are my external drives. This makes using the Cloud dangerous and useless. I am hoping one the backup is made, all will resume as normal but it is a risk.

 Comcast says I have 8Mbit/s but Acronis typically shows 1 or 2. This makes it take forever to backup anything. My first attempt was estimating up to 39 days for 1.6TB so I cancelled and am now trying 160GB which has been been chugging along for a week.

Acronis chat support has been down for a week and email and personal support options are grayed out. I like the standalone Acronis True Image. Trying the Cloud version has been a mistake so far.