backup to Acronis Cloud and hard drive, is that feasible?
Let's say you backup to your external hard drive and you want to backup to the Acronis Cloud or another Cloud platform. Is this possible without the backups getting confused?
That is, from my old days programming, I know that when you backup up a file, a flag is set on the file that it's been backed up.
I realize that doing full backups might not be a problem- but if you're doing inc. or diff. backups, once you've done that to your hard drive, you won't be able to do one to the cloud because the flag is set?
I'm sure I've don't understand about the flag setting, so I'm sure this is possible, but it would be helpful to know for sure. I'm not sure I or anyone would really want to backup both to their hard drive and the cloud but if they do.... and they want to do it by use of inc. and/or diff., can they do both?
Joe
Tuttle, so, when ATI is about to do an incr. or diff. backup how does it know what sectors to backup without looking at file flags? Do sectors have dates when last altered? Then ATI would see that? Just curious.
And, then, I see that it's OK to do disk/partition backups to both a drive and the cloud without confusing the program- cool! Though I'd probably never do this- I just want to learn as much as possible. The reason I hesitate to do a disk/partition backup to the cloud is that it would take too long to do the first full backup even with a decent internet access from Time/Warner's turbo service- since uploads are much slower than dowloads. I suppose I could use the cloud to backup critical files- such as whatever is in My Documents folder- and, doing that, would not cause a problem for my routine, daily inc. or diff. backups for my disk.
Joe
ATI examines which sectors have changed data. File flags are irrelevant, as ATI does not care about files when performing disk/partition backups.
ATI examines which sectors have changed data. File flags are irrelevant, as ATI does not care about files when performing disk/partition backups.
ATI examines which sectors have changed data. File flags are irrelevant, as ATI does not care about files when performing disk/partition backups.
tuttle, still here? been a few years---
now I've got time to continue learning Acronis, a program I'm very impressed with---
anyway, so, I presume from what you say, that ATI compares the existing image with the drive to see which sectors have changed data? I suppose that's obvious, but I may not have understood you correctly, but I think I do-- I just had no idea that ATI was looking at the existing image- this gets back to the original question, that if I'm running several different kinds of backups at different times- ATI isn't going to get confused over this...
but, if doing select file backups, then it does look at the file flags? or does it just compare the file in the existing image with the current file on the disk?
one situation which arises is that I have a 2nd internal drive for all my video editing work and photo collection- the video stuff is much larger and I don't do much of that-- I have one backup to backup that entire drive- but, I think, due to the drive being periodically defraged, the sectors are changing as the files are moved, so doing an inc. of diff. backup will result in a larger backup--- so, insted, I have a second backup set which just does inc. backups of only my photo collection, which though not small, is much smaller than my video stuff- the video and photo stuff are in different folders, so it's easy enough to make the distinction
Joe