User's Manual

theft, etc. Before proceeding with a backup, estimate how long it will take to back up your data. For

instance, if your folders take up 10GB and your upload speed is 1000 Kbps (somewhat less than half a

gigabyte per hour), it should take more than 20 hours to perform your first full backup. So depending

on the speed of your Internet connection, you may want to back up just the most critical files.

7.3. Backing up to Acronis Online Storage

To perform an online backup, log on to your Online Backup service account by clicking Backup →

Online Backup on the sidebar and entering your e-mail address used for opening the account and the

password. In order to not enter the password during subsequent logons, you may want to select the

Remember the password check box. Make these settings and click Log In.

After the program connects to Acronis Online Backup Server, select a computer for connection to the

Online Storage. When logged on to the online backup service for the first time, register a computer

for work with Online Backup. To do this, click New computer, then type in the computer name.

If you want to use encryption for the data to be stored on the Online Storage, enter an encryption key

to be used for encrypting your data. Entering the encryption key automatically enables encryption of

all data stored on the Online Storage. The encryption key is similar to a password, but it is used for

unlocking access to your encrypted data. Acronis Online Backup uses the industry-standard AES-256

encryption algorithm. The data will be encrypted before transferring through the Internet to the

Online Storage and will be stored in encrypted form. You need to enter the encryption key for the

computer only once during its registration, though it will be required if you try to recover files backed

up from this computer when connected to the Online Storage from another computer. Having made

all the necessary settings, click Continue.

Until you log off, subsequent connections to the Online Storage from this computer will occur

automatically - you just need to select Online Backup.

If you already registered the computer, select it from the list of registered computers, then click

Continue. By default your current computer is selected for registration.