Replication incredibly slow
I installed build 21400 and followed the instructions for creating a backup with replication. It did a full backup, with validation, in about the usual amount of time for 365gB. The replication, on the other hand, has been running for over a day and still has (according to ATI) another three days to go. If this is normal, then replication is useless for me.
My internet connection is solid, if not the fastest: 5.15Mbps.
Jerry, replication to the Acronis Cloud will only go at the upload speed for your broadband connection which is normally a lot slower than your download speed.
For myself, I can get 100Mbps download speed but only around 5Mbps upload speed. This can take my own Cloud backups around a day to upload around 50GB of data.
See webpage: What is the difference between Mbps and MBps?
Thanks. I was too lazy to do the math, but now I remember why I don't back up my system to the cloud.
How do I stop the darned replication. Do I just have to let it run its course? I suppose it isn't doing any harm.
just one more comment.
I recently noticed that doing an entire computer backup to the cloud is more faster than replicate the local backup file to the Acronis Cloud
I am on cable modem internet with speeds of (70/7)Mb and the process will take approximately 12hrs to perform the backup directly to the cloud. that is much faster than replicate. I have been replicating for a week know a 83Gb backup and it have not finish yet.
I think something does not makes sense or the replication option upload the uncompressed file..
Joel, welcome to these public User Forums.
There are key differences between doing a direct backup to the Acronis Cloud and doing a replication of an existing backup file to the same.
Personally, I would use direct backups to the Cloud over using replication.
Direct cloud backups support pausing & resuming without needing to restart over from the beginning which is how replication works in ATI 2020 (being changed in ATI 2021).
Replication works at a lower background priority so that other backup tasks could still run at the same time plus then needs to read back .tibx data from the destination storage location, which can add additional time to the process.
Replication will also follow the same rules as the local task Backup scheme chosen, so if you create a new Full backup after 5 Incrementals, each such new full backup has to be uploaded to the Cloud. This is fundamentally different to direct cloud backups where a full backup is only done once for the initial upload and all subsequent backups are of a hybrid incremental / delta comparison method to upload only changed blocks of data to reduce the amount of data being transferred across the network.
For the above reasons, I have only used replication for testing reasons as have similar ISP speeds to you (100MB / 10MB) which for me render replication not viable. I would reconsider if replication was available to local network locations instead of restricted only to the Acronis cloud.