Replication of backup configured with Acronis 2019

https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2020/index.html#43478.html says the following:
"Replication is not activated by default. You can activate it for any local backup of a disk, partition or entire computer that uses the local destination (to an external or internal disk) that you configured in Acronis True Image 2020 or higher. You can activate the replication in a special tab of a backup plan." [My underline]
I don't understand that. I have a local backup configured with Acronis 2019 and was able to activate replication. I feel I must be missing something.
Any clarification?


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AHA! I see I misread the big green button at the bottom as "replicate" instead of "recreate." Not what I was expecting! After all, I was there to "replicate," knew nothing of "recreate" and the words look the same without some (above the call-of-duty?) scrutiny.
Perhaps there should be a "recreate" button AND a grayed-out "replicate" button with an explanation of the recreate as a one-time (right?) requirement for previously created (pre 2020) backup configurations.
How does this then relate to my existing incremental backup scheme? Are incrementals now taken off of a newly created full backup or do the incrementals continue with the original? Should I delete the original?
You say above "The target has to be the Acronis Cloud." The backup scheme being replicated can still target the local storage, right? I don't want to lose that just to do a replication.
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Replication takes a copy of your local backup .tibx backup images and stores a copy in the Acronis Cloud, it does this in the background (once the initial full backup has been created) and allows you to continue to run this and other local backup tasks without replication causing those tasks to be queued as would otherwise happen.
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