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I already have an 'Entire PC' system image saved to the Acronis cloud.  I want to add a new hard drive to my computer but I dont want Acronis, ie..  the "entire pc" back up to see it and try uploading it to the cloud.  Is there a way to disable this from happening.  I think i can disable it on the back end by going into the online backup management software and deleting that particular hard drive backup after it already uploads, but Id like to control it on the front end and not have it even see the drive.  Im trying to keep Comcast from getting mad at me for data overages.  I used alot last month when I uploaded my approx 1tb of system image backup to the cloud!  I'll appreciate any advice you can give!

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Dean

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If the Entire PC backup is a scheduled task stop using the task.  Make note of the setup options you made for the backup task.  Now create Disk backups for your disks individually.  Each disk will need it's own task configured as appropriate to your needs.  Once the new tasks have been created you can delet the Entire PC task (settings only) from the backup task list in the GUI.  This will insure the task will never again run yet preserve the backup created by that task.

Thanks,

So what you are saying is essentially I need to start from scratch.  Im trying to avoid doing another complete back up as the first back up took about 10 days (continuous 24 hour operations) to back up my whole PC.  Comcast is great on the download speeds, 187mbs.  The upload speeds, not so much @ 12mbs.  If this is truly my only option, I guess Ill wait until its time to [erform a fresh complete backup again instead of the incrementals its doing now.  (12 or 20 cycles, cant remember which its set to at the moment).  Thanks again!

 

Dean

The key is that an Entire PC backup is a backup of all internal disks in the machine.  A full Disk backup is of only 1 disk in a multi-disk system.