Steve,

So how many plans do you have created total and for what exactly? I think I understand you to say you have two file backup plans (one local, one cloud), two image plans (one local with full weekly backup, one cloud with fully monthly backup?)

I'm struggling right now with getting my client's data to the cloud. One of my client's has like 2TB of file data and with his internet connection its going to take almost ~30 days to upload. I can't have him not backup for 30 days.... I'll never be able to run a new full backup at that speed. Even uploading his image without data , roughly ~62GB, takes over a week. There's no way I can run a new full backup weekly, probably not even monthly.

Do you just tell people straight up they don't have the bandwidth for cloud backup, you have to increase it or stay local? Or is there something I'm missing here? It seems really straight forward, but I've never ran into this issue before.

Was this ever resolved? I am having this issue now.

Thanks for the feedback David. Sometimes just discussing it helps to think about the issue more clearly, it may not be such an issue at all.

One thing to note about the backups I didn't mention, the image backup is the required system drives, recovery/os/boot/C:/etc and the files backup is the data files , say D:/ drive. That is why there are two plans.

When I started w/ this company I changed them all to be image hybrid plans that did every drive, that way I could restore the entire thing or open the image to restore files. The owner didn't like that and insisted on changing it back to image+files like they had done it previously.

The retention settings are to keep the last 3 versions of the file, no other options checked. I haven't changed these at all since what hey were using before.

With the image backup only being the OS drive, it doesn't take too long to run the backups.

I didn't really consider the files plan not needing a new full backup after the initial backup, I was lumping it together (mentally) with the image plan needing a fresh full backup every once in a while.

With all that being said.. I suppose this current plan of hybrid files + hybrid image (once every 30 days) will be fine once this initial upload gets done..