Replicating local backups to Acronis Cloud

Why replicate?

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 backup plans, one to backup to your local computer and another one to Acronis Cloud. But automatic replication saves time when setting up the backup plans and creating a replica is faster than creating another backup. A replica is a copy of your backup and it can be used as a safeguard and accessed from anywhere.

Replication activation

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

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] Open the Backup tab, click Settings, and then click Replication to configure the cleanup settings for Acronis Cloud to optimize usage of its space.