Data archiving options

Data center

When you archive your files to Acronis Cloud, they are uploaded to one of the Acronis data centers located in different countries. Initially, the data center is defined as the one closest to your location when you create your Acronis account. Afterwards, your archived files are stored in the same data center, by default.

We recommend that you set the data center for an archive manually, when you are in a different country and your default data center is not the closest to your current location. This will significantly increase the data upload rate.

Note: You cannot change the data center after starting the archiving process.

To select a data center:

1. When configuring the first archiving process, click Options.
2. Select the country that is closest to your current location.

Encryption

To protect the archived data from unauthorized access, you can encrypt the archive with industry-standard AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) cryptographic algorithm with a 256-bit long key.

Note: You cannot set or change the archive encryption option for a pre-existing archive.

To encrypt an archive:

1. When configuring the first archiving process, click Options.
2. Select the Encrypt archive by using the AES-256 algorithm check box.
3. Enter the password for the archive into the corresponding field. We recommend that you use a password longer than seven symbols and containing both letters (in upper and lower cases preferably) and numbers to make it more difficult to guess.

   A password cannot be retrieved. Please memorize the password that you specify for an archive protection.

Acronis True Image asks for the password every time you try to modify the archive. To access the archive, you must specify the correct password.