Limitations of the cloud storage

Unlike other types of storage available in Acronis Backup, the cloud storage has the following limitations.

Operations

The following operations are not possible.

Backup operations:

• Backing up from bootable media
• Backing up with Agent for Exchange
• Creating differential backups
• Using the Custom backup scheme
• Simplified naming of backup files
• Simultaneous host-based backup of multiple virtual machines
• Setting up regular conversion of backups to a virtual machine

Operations with backups:

• Validating a backup*
• Exporting a backup
• Mounting a backup
• Replicating or moving backups from the cloud storage
• Converting an incremental backup to full

Operation with archives (an archive is a set of backups):

• Validating an archive
• Exporting an archive

These limitations also apply to backing up data using Initial Seeding and to recovering data using Large Scale Recovery.

* An initial seeding backup is automatically validated immediately after its creation.

Backup and recovery options

Some backup and recovery options are not supported by cloud backups. For example, Backup splitting.

By using the Backup performance > Network connection speed option, you can vary the transferring speed as kilobytes per second, but not as a percentage.