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how does ATI cloud backup operate.

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still working thru things.  the cloud backup has been running virtually non stop since tuesday.  i've selected mostly default options (incremental for cloud ) with encryption.  about 350gb of data over a 10m upstream link.  i expected a while for the initial backup, but something does not seem right.  i see a number of file read failures; does this cause an entire "reboot" to the backup process?  it doesn't just bypass the file and note it was not backed up?

this is a home pc, so not a whole slew of file changes.  i was expecting that the incremental scan process would be fairly quick and an upload (in the middle of the night) of changed files would only take maybe an hour or so.  have i made a fatal assumption?  does ATI have to move the entire file to the cloud in order to compare for changes instead of doing it on the client side?

i have downloaded the log viewer and don't seem to see anything that hits me, but again, not a tech.  we are in an area that has been significantly impacted by the storms over the last week or so.  does that cause a reboot if a connection is lost?

any help appreciated, thx, ron

 

 

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Ron, the Cloud backup is a little different to normal local / network backups in that there are no Backup Scheme options that you can select.

An initial Full backup is always required for a Cloud backup, but once that is in place, all further backups are then a modified Incremental type of backup but using a Delta comparison to identify only changed data and upload just that to the cloud.

If a Cloud backup is interrupted there is no restart from the beginning again - it will scan for changes and compare with what is already present in the Cloud, then start from that point forward again.

A large Cloud backup over a relatively slow upload connection will take a long time to complete and there may be many interruptions during that process that have to be dealt with, scans ran and the backup resumed again.

A Cloud backup should not be your only backup if you are serious about data security - you really need to have a complete set of different backup locations, i.e. backups to local drive(s), perhaps also to a network drive on the local network as well as your Cloud backup, with at least one backup held offline to afford total protection from any malware / ransomware that might creep into your local network or on to your computer.

Take a read of the following Acronis article on Computer Backup.

thx steve.  the Cloud is the insurance.  local usb hdd is for protection against drive failure and quick recovery of a file.  i will probably spin off some important/keepsake files and put them in a safe deposit box, but i'm not going to get too crazy with a home pc (i've been crazy in the past at work).

i still don't get the on line.  at one point the status indicator on the page showed high 200's gb backed up.  thought i was almost done.  then after an error, back to scanning/backing up 20gb of 350gb!  does it ever actually indicate that a backup was completed?  my local seagate runs at night and the log shows maybe a 15 minute runtime and it is handling the entire D: drive (not C:)

 

thx, ron

Ron, once data is in the Cloud, any restart will cause a scan which should normally progress quickly to catch up with where it left-off previously before any error or network glitch.

It will eventually finish and give you a nice tick to show it has completed, after which you will see a much faster process for future backups.  My own cloud backup (approx 80GB) shows the following activity panel entries (run only on demand manually).

2018-03-10 17_10_26 Cloud activity.png

2018-03-10 17_12_26 Cloud activity.png

As you can see from the above images, the initial full backup took a couple of days, but after that it really depended on the amount of change taking place.  I am running a Windows 10 Insiders build so there has been a fair amount of changes to one of the drives I include in the backup as MS seem to be pushing out a new Insiders Build every few days at present!

thx again steve.  i now know what to look for.

are those "time spent" numbers correct?  if so, i'm in deep at 10 upstream.  i don't know if my math is correct, but i would have thought about 15 minutes or so (80 gigabits at 100 mbps = 800 seconds?) for the 3/4/18 entry.  ron

Ron, I take the speed figures with a liberal pinch of salt!  My broadband upload speed is rated at 5Mbps even though my service is rated as being 'up to' 100Mbps download speed. (This is for VirginMedia here in the UK).

oh thank you!

i would doubt if i had that much data changing daily so my estimate of an hour or so a night would probably hold.  thx again, ron