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Does ATI "mirror" my backups?

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I have an external USB drive that I backup to Acronis cloud.  If there is a file named myfile.txt that was backed up, then I delete the file on the USB drive, will it also be deleted from the cloud backup?

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Bernard, when you are backing up to the Acronis Cloud, then you are in essence doing a type of incemental backup where changes you make are captured in the updates to the cloud stored data each time that you run the backup task.

If you were doing Synchronisation to the Acronis Cloud, then file deletions would be mirrored more quickly, but this too will depend on any versions / retention rules etc.

For your backup task, check your Advanced settings configuration for what rules are being applied to your data in the Cloud.

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In reply to by truwrikodrorow…

Thanks for your answer.  I have only 1 recent file version, and I believe 1 day.  I just ran an incremental backup, and several files were deleted from the cloud backup, which no longer existed on disk.  But I understand your point regarding it taking a while depending on your backup settings.