can i take full backup to local hard disk and incremental backups to cloud?
can i take full image backup to local\removable hard drive and then set up incremental (back up only changes since the full backup) so i dont need to backup the hole system to the cloud?
and also i've been told that the cloud service compressing the files say 100gb to 50-60
is this applies to acronis true image or only to business services?
Hello Adi Ariel,
It is not possible to back up only incrementally to the Acronis Cloud. One backup plan supports one destination only and thus you will need to do the first backup to Cloud which would be a full one. The default scheme to Cloud would be 1 full backup and then only incremental backups so you would only need 1 full system backup there, all the other backups in this plan would back up changes.
Alternatively, you could back up the incremental .tib files to Cloud but it is not the best solution as to recover from them you would first need to recover this incremental version from Cloud and all the incremental backups that were before it, then add them to the Acronis True Image interface with their full backup to recover the data itself.
As for the compression - it works in all our products but we cannot predict how much space the compression would save as it depends a lot on the exact types of files that you have on your PC.
Oh, Steve Smith, you were a minute faster than me! :)
thank you very match for the replies!
let's say i want to save incremental to dropbox folder and full to d:\full backups is this possible?
or full and incremental must be saved in the same folder?
oh you already answered that to me.. it sucks because i have 4tb music production pc witch don't go thru alot of data changes and i dont want to pay for 4 tb to the cloud.
Adi, I would recommend getting yourself a local NAS storage drive that can sit on your home network and do your backups to that device given the amount of data involved, this will give you the size of storage that you need plus will offer you the protection of RAID within the NAS hardware function.
The key point with using a NAS is to not expose the NAS to any potential Windows based malware or ransomware etc by mapping drive letters directly to your backup folders. You can create completely separate NAS user credentials for use only with your backup tasks, where these do not map directly to any existing Windows user but are just used by ATI when doing the backup (or recovery).
Backing up the size of data you have to any cloud storage will take a very long time unless you have a very high speed broadband to high upload data transfer speeds.
@Steve Smith
How do I do what you describe above to protect the NAS drive from Windows based malware ?
thanks
Declan, welcome to these public User Forums.
I can only speak for my own Synology NAS here.
All my Acronis backups to the NAS use a dedicated user account & password that are only known to the NAS and not used anywhere on my Windows computers. This is so that no Windows account has any authority to the NAS if becomes compromised via malware.
I select the NAS backup folder within the ATI application after using my NAS credentials, so have no mapped drive letters in Windows that expose any locations on the NAS.
The NAS has antivirus software installed / running within that OS environment.
The NAS is not exposed outside of my home network, no ports open to it through my router or firewall. Security on the NAS will block any repetitive access attempts.
All other protections are with the user beyond this, i.e. do not open unsolicited emails with attachments or click on links in the same, avoid going to any untrusted web sites unless using tools such as Sandboxie or have web browser protection with your security applications etc.
Thanks for reply Steve. I have a Synology NAS drive in RAID config. Are there any step by step instructions I can follow to set up what you describe in terms of the backup location only being for Acronis to access?
I have my NAS mapped as a drive and different users on my network (the family) can use it and store documents there. In addition I do my main PC backup to a folder on the NAS but in the same drive. Sounds like that isn't the most secure. I do not use any of the remote access functionality for the NAS - it is only accessed by the users on the network. Are you saying you exclusively use your NAS for backups and nothing else ? Or do you have separate partition on the NAS for backups exclusively ?
All advice appreciated !
Declan, it has been some years since I did my original setup with the Synology NAS, but the principle is fairly straight-forward.
I created a dedicated user 'Acronis' on the NAS along with creating a new Shared folder called 'Backup' that only the new Acronis user has authority to read/write to.
I don't map any drive letters to any folders held on the NAS, but do have a separate area which is shared between my various computers using the Synology Drive Client to sync such as documents, music, photos - this works much in the same way as using Dropbox, OneDrive etc with the key exception that all my data is on my NAS Cloud drive rather than across the internet.
There are Synology Drive Client apps for Windows, Linux, Android, iPad etc so I can share data in this way but changes are synced via the client rather than having any direct access to the NAS folders. You can keep copies of individual files locally on any device as needed so can still access these when offline from the network.
For my Acronis backups, I simply need to select the NAS as my destination in the task settings, enter my 'Acronis' credentials and do the normal other configuration for the tasks. When I need to check the status of backup files etc, then I can use the task 'Open location' option which will open an Explorer window to the NAS folder for me to do so.