Acronis Server Cloud Backup - User Guide - Manual (Page 117)

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Home file server
If you have a Gigabit Ethernet home network and a dedicated file server, you can store backups on
the file server practically like on an internal drive.
If you decide to use an external hard drive, file server, etc., you will need to check whether Small
Office Backup detects the selected backup storage. You need to check this both in Windows and
when booted from the rescue media.
Optical discs
Blank optical discs such as DVD-R, DVD+R are very cheap, so they will be the lowest cost solution for
backing up your data, though the slowest one. This is especially true when backing up directly to
DVDs. Furthermore, if your backup consists of several DVDs, data recovery from DVDs will require a
lot of disc swapping. On the other hand, using Blu-ray discs may be a viable option.
Due to the necessity of swapping discs, we strongly recommend to avoid backing up to DVDs if the number of
discs is more than three. When there is no alternative to backing up to DVDs, we recommend to copy all DVDs
to a folder on a hard disk and then to recover from that folder.
Acronis Cloud
Small Office Backup allows you to use the Acronis Cloud service for safeguarding your most
important files by saving them to a secure remote location. Because files are stored on a remote
storage, they are protected even if your computer gets stolen. So the risk of data loss as a result of
fire, theft, or other natural disasters is practically eliminated. If something happens to your backup
image, PC, or external storage device, you can get your most important files back.
6.2.1 FTP connection
Small Office Backup allows you to store your backups on FTP servers.
To create a new FTP connection, when selecting a backup storage click New FTP connection, and in
the opened window provide:
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Path to the FTP server, for example: my.server.com
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Port
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User name
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Password
To check your settings, click the Test connection button. The computer will try to connect to the
specified FTP server. If the test connection has been established, click the Connect button to add the
FTP connection.
The created FTP connection will appear in the folder tree. Select the connection and browse for the
backup storage that you want to use.
Please, be aware that the mere opening of an FTP server's root folder does not bring you to your home
directory.
For data to be recovered directly from an FTP server, the backup must consist of files no greater than 2GB each.
Because of this, Small Office Backup splits a backup into files with a size of 2GB when backing up directly to an
FTP server. If you back up to a hard disk with the aim of transferring the backup to an FTP later, you may split
the backup into files of 2GB each by setting the desired file size in the backup options.
An FTP server must allow passive mode file transfers.