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[RESOLVED] ATI-2020: backup speed to Acronis Cloud is disapointing

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I bought ATI-2020 yesterday and my first attempts of doing full backups to Cloud disappoint me. I had installed Windows-10 (had Win-7 before) and just the bear minimum. I wanted to do a full backup of this before starting to install all my games and other stuffs. I started it and went checking something on TV. I came back 20 min later and saw it had not finished (was about at 10-20% done) and saying it would take it 6 hours to do backup 50Gb of data? Now today at noon (Saturday), I had reinstalled 95% of all my stuffs. I have around 220Gb of data to backup. I started a full backup again on Clouds. In 20 min it did 1.6Gb and estimated time of completion (finished being calculated 2 min later) says it would take 18h to do this full backup. Speed is fluctuating between 7 and 16Mbps. I live in Montreal, Canada and the Cloud server region is United States. I have a 30Mbps internet cable speed and never have speed issues. So what is wrong here? Is this the kind of average speed I will get everytime? Kinda makes me regret getting this Cloud backup solution. Up until now, I was just backing up to an external USB HD and that usually takes 2.5 hours for 200GB aprox.

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What is your internet upload speed which is normally different to the quoted download speed?

For myself, I have 100Mbps download but only 5Mbps upload speed from my ISP.

Go to webpage:  Upload time calculator - Calculate Upload time/speed and put in your 50GB data size and your actual upload speed then see what this shows for the expected time to do this?

Example below using 10Mbps upload for 50GB

Hummm, you have a point.  I did not even thought about that.

 

I checked and my upload sped is 10Mbps.

 

So with that kind of upload, I see no point in using a Cloud backup solution, unless I want to dedicated a whole weekend just doing that.

 

I am betting that a lot of folks haven thought about that either.

 

Thx for pointing that out.

 

Acronis should put up a strong note in their Cloud advertisement saying "Please check your upload speed before and do this calculation *LINK* to determine if it is a viable solution for you".  Otherwise a lot of people are just going to pollute the forums trashing the Cloud backup speed.