Normal for new cloud back up to take 61 days??
Hello,
I am a new Acronis 2016 trial user and I am trying to do a full cloud back up. The dashboared says that it will take 61 days to complete the basck up. Is this normal? I am not very technical and wonder if I the settings are not set up properly.
Any advice is much appreciated.
Cheers

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Agreed. Cloud is great for offsite recovery and safety, but since it relies on capped upload speeds from ISP's, it can be quite a bit slower than a local backup. I would recommend running a local backup for your primary backup/recovery location and then work on getting the Cloud backup completed. You can pause the cloud backup whenever you want to give the connecton a break or allow for local backups to run from time to time. I took me about a week to upload about 500GB of photos initially, but now it only takes a couple of minutes to backup the changes (unless I add a bunch of new pictures). In the event of recovery, it's going to be a bit faster, but it's still a little slow so I stick to localy backup/recovery which can be done in minutes (or hours) instead of days or weeks. But, if my house catches on file, I still have the option to recover from the cloud if I need to go that route.
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Thanks for the advice Bobbo,
I have deciced to back up everything on a local external drive and work on the cloud back up over a longer period of time.
Many thanks
Gene
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