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acronis and dropbox

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Hi every one

I found a very annoying issue with backup in general (and in my case acronis backup) and dropbox.

I configured my dropbox so that all the files are kept online and none on my local drive.

During backup the files are read by acronis and automatically downloaded to my local drive. As a result the backup takes a lot of time and my drive is filled up. To anyone reading this : exclude your cloud drive from the backup if you want the files only online!

 

 

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Frank, welcome to these public User Forums.

ATI is intended for backing up primarily local files and if you are using a Cloud based service such as Dropbox with no local files, then the behaviour seen (files being downloaded in order to be included) is as expected.

Please note: this does not work for OneDrive if using Files on Demand due to the use of reparse points for the cloud based files since Microsoft changed the method to this.