Operation Manual

6 Archiving data

In this section

What is data archiving? ............................................................................ 91

Data archiving vs. Online backup ............................................................. 91

Archiving your data .................................................................................. 92

Accessing your archived files ................................................................... 92

6.1 What is data archiving?

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:

 Free storage space saving

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.

 Easy access from any device

Since you uploaded your files to Acronis Cloud, you can access them with Acronis True Image

2016, 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.

 Data protection

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.

 File sharing

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.

 File versions

For the files that have been changed and uploaded to Acronis Cloud several times, Acronis True

Image 2016 keeps all the modifications in different file versions. You can choose a previous file

version and download it to your device.

6.2 Data archiving vs. Online backup

The data archiving feature is similar to backup to Acronis Cloud, but there are a number of

differences.