Data archiving is a tool that allows you to move your big or rarely used files to Acronis Cloud. Every time you run this tool, it analyzes the data in the selected folder and suggests uploading the found files to Acronis Cloud. You can select the files and folders that you want to archive. After uploading, the local copies of these files will be deleted. Afterwards, when you need to open or change an archived file, you can download it back to your local storage device or access and manage it right in Acronis Cloud.
Data archiving has the following main features:
As a rule, storage space of modern high-capacity hard drives is mostly occupied by user data, such as photographs and documents, and not by the operating system or applications. Since most of the data is used occasionally, there is no need to keep them on a local drive. Data archiving helps you free up storage space for frequently used files.
Since you uploaded your files to Acronis Cloud, you can access them with Acronis True Image, Acronis True Image mobile application, and Acronis Cloud web application from any device running Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android, including tablets and smartphones.
Your data stored in Acronis Cloud is protected from corruption or disaster. For example, in case of your local hard drive failure, you can download your files to your new hard drive. Moreover, your data is stored in encrypted state. You can be sure that no one except you can access your data.
When your files are uploaded to Acronis Cloud, you can create public links to share the files with your friends or to post them to forums and social networks.
For the files that have been changed and uploaded to Acronis Cloud several times, Acronis True Image keeps all the modifications in different file versions. You can choose a previous file version and download it to your device.