Uploading large filed (<1tb>) to cloud
I am a professional photographer and have a large number of pictures, over 1TB. I back them up to two external hard drives using Acronis 2016, but I would like to move them to the cloud so that I have a safe off site locaiton. I have attempeted to do this with many differenct configuraitons, including creating zip files, but the bottom line is that I am not able to get them all up there without spending many hours of time. Does anyboyd know a way that I can get these files up to the cloud.
Once there I would only upload new files so it should not be so bad
Thank You


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Hi,
You are not alone with this issue, a good number of others have posted similar comments. I myself like Steve have mostly avoided the cloud for the same issue. I too have an NAS device however I understand that your objective is to have a backup of your photos in an offsite location.
You are right that after the initial work is done adding to it will not be so bad. Many have suffered through literally days if not weeks to make the initial backup. Acronis is aware of this and I think there just might be a change coming in the next version release.
In the mean time I would suggest that you split up the total somehow into more manageable chunks and back those up individually over a given period of time. Yes this will take a long time but is much more manageable than doing so in one large chunk.
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Hi John, I suggest to have a look at Duplicati ( www.duplicati.com ). Maybe this is a solution for your problem.
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Acronis Cloud also offers a physical media transfer for intiial seeding. This may be worth the extra cost in this case...
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/cloud/backup-service/initial-seeding/
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Thank you all for your help. I think I will just go with an external drive and then store it off site
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John Esposito wrote:Thank you all for your help. I think I will just go with an external drive and then store it off site
Hello John,
JFYI: From the experience of many of our customers who are professional photographers, multiple external drives is the best option for storing full collection of photos. We have customers with 20-30 TB of photos, and they usually copy them to external drives and clone with Acronis True Image, or backup to a NAS device that allows to add more disks for extra storage.
Some people store at least two copies on external drive - one at home and one at another location (parents, friends, offices, even bank vaults), while keeping the current projects they are working on also in a Cloud backup copy. They configure multiple backup plans - daily online backup, and backup to local drive a few times a day.
Gaidar
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