I am working to switch providers but that is definitely a massive pain in the ass with a backup service you have been with for years and have retention history going back that far. This change represents a 250% increase of my current rates. Just a few options i thought of after 30 seconds of thinking about the issue. effectively "grandfathering" in partners current storage usage.
There were a bunch of better ways Acronis could have rolled out this change better including, but not limited to:ġ) Grandfathering current partners into old pricingĢ) Giving more notice, i got none except mid-last year there were rumors, bringing it up to my account manager yielded, "it's something we're considering, nothing is concrete."ģ) Giving further discounts to current partners.Ĥ) Making the change only apply to future storage. I get it, they think people are abusing the platform by buying the minimum cloud storage and using all local. I know, you can pay per agent to get around this but it's a big price increase either way. Too bad they just screwed over their existing partners by starting to charge by the gig of storage in their cloud (100$/TB/Month) as well as on your own local storage devices (35$/TB/Month) Yeah, you pay per the gig to store on your own hard drives. Long time Acronis user and former fan here.