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Hello,

I am just setting up ATI 17 Trial for Windows to do a complete PC backup to the cloud. The online backup options are Schedule, Notifications, Exclusions and Advanced. Nowhere can I see where to choose Incremental or Differential or any other backup method. I am obviously missing the point here somewhere. I'd be glad of some guidance as to how to set up an incremental system please.

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Brian, when you do backups to the Cloud, there are no options for doing Incremental or Differential backup types as these are not relevant in this case.

Due to the size of data that you need to upload to the Cloud you would not want to start sending full backups there after making X incremental or differential backups.  With Cloud backups Acronis uses a delta approach once the initial full backup to the Cloud has completed, then it compares changes at a sector level to determine what data should be uploaded.

Incremental / differential backups can only be used with local / network backups.

Thank you Steve. I see. So the schedule options are the intervals for the sector comparisons?

Brian, yes in essence, that is correct.