Acronis Cloud supports backup from the following sources:

• Local disks
• USB disks attached to the machine
• Flash drives attached to the machine

Acronis Cloud does not support backup from the following sources:

• Mapped drives
• Network shares
• CD/DVD drives
• Floppy drives

You may encounter this issue:

Symptoms

1. In Acronis Online Backup you select a mapped drive or a network share to back up to Acronis online storage:

   

   

   

2. The product fails with any of the following:
   • The mapped drive or network share fails to be added as the backup source;
   • The mapped drive or network share is added as a backup source, but the backup fails;
   • The mapped drive or network share is added as a backup source, the backup completes, but the resulting backup file is corrupted.

Cause

This is a GUI issue. This operation is not supported.

Acronis Online Backup does not support backup from the following sources:

• Mapped drives
• Network shares
• CD/DVD drives
• Floppy drives