VIDEO: Acronis Cloud Storage and Backup Review

welcome to our product review of acronis backup and recovery 11.5 acronis is a cloud backup provider for both consumers and businesses we're looking at their business platform today and this video is brought to you by technologyadvice and their smart advisor tool which lets you compare 50 cloud storage companies in under two minutes you'll interact with the cronus through their desktop software which you see here you can manage either your current computer a networked computer or you can connect to a management server for this video we're just going to go over how to use the software on your current computer to create a new backup or backup plan which is what most users will want to do you just create click create backup plan and a lot of options will pop up this includes what you want to back up acronis is set up so that it's going to make disk images of your computer but you can tailor that to be just a few files or folders if you want it'll also ask you where you'd like to back up this will allow you to back up to acronis's online cloud storage or you can also back up to a network drive or a local drive you can also choose a backup scheme acronis has a few different ones built in including grandfather father sun and tower of hanoi setups or you can make a custom one which will allow you to specify how often you want to be backed up at what times of day and how many file versions you want it to save once you do that acronis is set up to just do it automatically in the background so you won't have to play with it again unless you want to change your settings if your files do get lost you can easily restore them as well just go up to the backup plans and tasks and you'll be able to choose new restore from the menu acronis is a very powerful platform and as you can see on the side here it also has tape management and disk management features most users probably won't be using these but some people will gain a lot of benefit from them if you have a tape setup that you need to develop a backup plan for to summarize the pros for cronus it's highly customizable there's a lot of options and users with multiple types of storage will find acronis's software will cover pretty much all of their needs they also offer physical media restore capabilities so if your hard drive does crash acronis will send you a hard drive full of your files through the mail and that will actually be faster for many users than downloading it through the internet and acronis also offers 24 7 customer support which is great for businesses who are using it in case of a hard drive failure some of acronis's downsides are that it's a very traditional backup provider as i mentioned before it's set up to automatically do disk images and you can't share files with others over the internet or access the files online in the same way that you can with a software like dropbox there's also no mac support this is limited to just pcs and linux computers before you make a choice on cloud storage however you should check out technologyadvice's smartadvisor so you can specify all the options you want and compare this to 49 other cloud storage providers thanks for watching you

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