Cloud archiving vs. Online backup

When you archive your data to Acronis Cloud, it is similar to an online backup A backup whose destination is Acronis Cloud. Online backups are stored remotely and accessible over the Internet., but there are a number of differences.

	Online backup	Cloud archiving
Feature purpose	Data protection from operating system corruption, hardware failures, and loss of separate files.	Cleanup of local storage device and moving data to Acronis Cloud.
Data protection	Overall protection of all data on a computer, especially an operating system. Protection of frequently used files.	Protection of rarely used and old files, mostly your personal documents, photographs, and so on.
Source data selection	Manual selection.	Manual selection of automatically found files.
Source data handling	The source data is kept in the original location.	The source data is deleted from the original location. This gives you a guarantee that your data will not get into the wrong hands if your hard drive or laptop is stolen.
Data change frequency	The data to back up is changed frequently. Usually a backup has many versions updated from time to time.	The data to archive is changed rarely. The files have few versions.