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Hello,  I was wondering how the cloudbackup feature works and if I can use it with Backblaze B2

thanks!

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The Cloud backup feature of Acronis True Image is limited to the Acronis Cloud. There are ways of backing up to other cloud storage service, but they can be convoluted. For example you can do a backup to a Synology NAS (or as I understand it QNAP NAS) which then has the ability to upload the backup files to various Cloud storage providers. Not sure which ones are supported, but includes DropBox and Amazon.

Ian 

Would it be possible to use true image back up my machine to a usb external drive, then copy those .tib files on the external drive to B2?

I assume if I then copy the .tib files back down to an external drive, I should be able to restore it?

Hello Jared,

Yes, you can. But, please, make sure that all the files are copied because of the connection of incremental/differential copies to the full ones:

https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2019/#13711.html

Or you can just create full backups only, this way there will be no problems in recovery.

 

Just for our internal statistics, could you let me know why you would not like to use Acronis Cloud as a second location to store the backups? Or can write here or DM me. Thank you in advance!

Jared, one further comment, if copying your backup .tib files then you will probably need to temporarily suspend Acronis Active Protection while doing so, else it will consider the copying action to be potentially a malware operation and will prevent it.

You can automate suspending AAP by using a small batch script per the example below:

@echo off
sc stop "AcronisActiveProtectionService" > NUL 2>&1
copy L:\Test\Backup*.tib S:\Cloud_folder > NUL 2>&1
sc start "AcronisActiveProtectionService" > NUL 2>&1

 

Thank you Steve.  I disabled the active protection and it worked like a champ.

Renata, I prefer B2 as they are US company with multiple data centers that I have used for years.  I see them as a solid cloud storage company, and I see Acronis as a solid backup tool company.  The cost of backups should be much cheaper assuming I rotate the backup sets every so often.  I suspect the only downfall is the encryption on the tib files makes deduplication harder for my backup program and increases upload time and filesize.