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Acronis Backup to Microsoft Cloud OneDrive

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My wife and I are amateur photographers. Our photos are stored on a Dell Precision and my wife's collection on a iMac. We currently use about 60GB and 800GB of disk storage, respectively. Our storage profile is standard Adobe Lightroom 5 comprising yearly, monthly and daily folders, with actual .dng and .jpeg physically in the daily files. The Photo library directory is structured in accordance with that hierarchy. The separate .dng files (each about 20MB) and the .jpeg files (each about 5MB) are stored at the lowest level of the hierarchy.

Whilst we have our main backups on a separate disk drive on each machine, we wish to create additional Cloud backups. This will utilize Microsoft OneDrive as I have been a user of this cloud facility for some time and Microsoft is now offering free unlimited storage on OneDrive! A no-brainer!

I have carried out an Acronis TI 2015 backup for my 60GB of data. Whilst this appeared to proceed properly to completion in the Acronis application, I received a warning message (from OneDrive) regarding a sync problem and drawing my attention to the fact that the file size limit on OneDrive is 15GB but the Acronis .tib file produced in the backup process was some 60GB in size and exceeded the OneDrive limit.

Is there a work around for this issue as it essentially removes Acronis TI 2015 as a backup option for heavy data users such as photographers wanting to use the cloud as we do?

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Thank you for your advice. This would certainly fix the file size problem. I have since found some other restrictions with proposed cloud backups relating to my upload speed which in itself is really the deal breaker. Thanks again for you advice.