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    System Image

    I just did a clean install of Window's 8.1 & reinstalling all my programs is a pain in the A//
    Is there a way to make a complete System Image & store it on the Cloud & if needed recover everything from the cloud ?
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    Thank's for your help in advance.

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    I wouldn't recommend that. A complete system image would be huge to upload to the cloud. My clean Win7 backup is 6GB, which is just drivers and Windows Updates.

    You wouldn't want to restore from a cloud drive either. It would take FOREVER to restore, because you have to download it back to your system.

    Why don't you want to use an external USB drive to store your backups?

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    Would not hold System Image.
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    Thank's for your help in advance.

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    1) What are your average upload and download speeds?

    2) How large is all of the data you want to backup?

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    Quote Originally Posted by desgnr View Post
    Would not hold System Image.
    What do you mean? I have multiple system image backups on one external usb 3.0 hard drive.

    Answer SpywareDr's questions and then calculate how long it would take to upload/download your system images.

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    Backup 50 gb.

    Download Speed 8.52 mbps..
    Upload Speed 5.38 mbps.

    If i backup to a Harddrive how do i restore the system if needed ?
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    50GB x1024 = 51200MB x8 = (409600Mb / 5.38Mbps) /60= 1269min /60 = 21 hours to upload
    50GB x1024 = 51200MB x8 = (409600Mb / 8.52Mbps) /60= 1269min /60 = 13.35 hours to download

    Like I said, it will take a really long time to upload and download. Remember that your transfer rate is in megabits, not megabytes per second.

    If i backup to a Harddrive how do i restore the system if needed ?
    What backup software are you using?

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    I was going to use LENOVO backup or Windows 8.1 backup,What do you suggest ?
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    Thank's for your help in advance.

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    50 GigiBytes times 1,073,741,824 bytes per GigaByte equals a total of 53,687,091,200 total bytes that need to be uploaded.

    5.38 Megabits per second upload speed times 1,000,000 bits per Mega equals 5,380,000 bits per second.

    5,380,000 bits per second divided by 8 bits in a byte equals 672,500 bytes per second upload speed.

    So now that we have everything converted to bytes, 53,687,091,200 bytes to be uploaded divided by the 672,500 bytes per second upload speed equals 79,832 seconds. And 79,832 seconds divided by 3,600 seconds in an hour equals 22.18 total hours to upload 50 GB at 5.38 Mbps.

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    Yup. That's more accurate, but my point was that it takes way way longer to backup/restore from the cloud.

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