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6 Archiving data
In this section
What is data archiving? ............................................................................ 28
Data archiving vs. Online backup ............................................................. 28
Archiving your data .................................................................................. 29
Accessing your archived files ................................................................... 30
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. 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.
