Replicating backups to Acronis Cloud

Why replicate?

A replica is a copy of your local backup of disk, partition or entire machine, that is sent to Acronis Cloud. It can be used as a safeguard and accessed from anywhere. Even though backing up your data provides protection, we recommend that you also replicate all local backups to Acronis Cloud, to protect from incidental corruption of your computer. Of course, you can create two backups, one to back up to your local computer and another one to Acronis Cloud. But creating a replica is faster than creating another backup with a cloud destination.

Replication activation

Replication is not activated by default. You can activate it for any local backup of a disk, partition, or entire machine, that uses the local destination (to an external or internal disk) that you configured in Acronis True Image (2020 or later).

To activate the replication of a backup to Acronis Cloud:

  1. From the backup list, select the backup that you want to replicate, and then open the Replica tab.
  2. Click Replicate. Now, replication is activated and will start once the normal backup is created. You are free to close Acronis True Image. Both the backup and replication processes will continue in background mode.
  3. [optional step] Click Options > Advanced > Replication to Acronis Cloud to see the data center where your backup replication is stored and to configure the cleanup settings for Acronis Cloud to optimize usage of its space.

Protection of replicated data

Replicated data is uploaded to Acronis Cloud by using Secure Socket Layer (SSL).

In the Cloud, data is stored according to your encryption settings. If no encryption password is set, the replicated data is stored unencrypted. Otherwise, data is encrypted by using AES-256.