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Cloud Backup Consuming a TON of Space

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In a last ditch effort before I'm forced to find a different backup provider I wanted to see if anyone on this forum could help me.

I have an open case #03932638 where I have selected 3 folders for backup to the Acronis Cloud. The total size of all the data in the folders is 30 MB. The data rarely changes and the backup is set to run daily.

The Acronis Cloud storage screen shows the backup taking 1.73 GB of space! I don't understand how 30 MB of data can consume 1.73 GB of backup space.

I created a new backup of the same exact folders and Acronis Cloud shows it taking up 6 MB of space.

Acronis support told me that the backup taking up 1.73 GB of space is normal and they want to close the case.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Scott

 

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Scott, I am not aware of any problems with backups to the Acronis Cloud that would result in the backup of a 30MB folder taking over 1.5GB of Cloud storage space!  This is not in any way doubting that you have such a problem!

I would recommend several options:

  1. Do not allow Acronis to close the case!  State very strongly that this issue is not resolved and that you do not accept that this is normal!  Ask for the support case to be escalated to the more senior Acronis support teams or to their management.
     
  2. In the Cloud dashboard web page.  Open the Cloud folder 'C Drive folders' and review what is shown for the contents of that folder?  Check that there has not been other items uploaded that you did not intend to include?
     
  3. Delete the 'C Drive folders' item from the Cloud dashboard, assuming that you have other backups of the same data besides the 'test' copy in the Cloud, and that you no longer need it for dealing with your support case.
     
  4. Finally, check your backup task settings for the 'C Drive folder' task for the number of versions to be stored and duration before older versions are deleted etc.

Steve,

I already escalated and had a manager contact me. I got this response from the tech today

"The test backup you have created does not have these number of slices. Unfortunately we can not delete the unique data. As I have already told you there is no technical issue. If this functionality does not suite you we accept it and respect your choice if you select refund.

Please let us know whether we should proceed with the refund or close the case as situation clarified."

I guess I gotta go find a new backup vendor. It sucks because I liked the features in Acronis..

Scott

Scott, it seems as if they are saying that your problem Cloud backup has a very large number of 'slices' given the reference to your test backup not having such a number of slices!

My suggestion here would be to go ahead and delete the Cloud backup task that created the over large backup then give it time for any cloud cleanup to finish so that you can check that the space is recovered.

If the backup task being deleted does not return the 1.5GB of space then that is another matter to escalate with Acronis but hopefully it will do so!