Your competitors can back up drives with OneDrive installed. Better still would be assurance that Acronis will fix this issue in an True Image upcoming release.
#REINSTALL ONEDRIVE WINDOWS 10 PRO 64 BIT 1803 FULL#
Recommending workarounds of either downloading the full OneDrive folder, assuming the computer has adequate drive space, or excluding the folder from backups is plausible. Stating that Acronis software cannot fully support Microsoft's software features is not a solution. The KB also should not refer to its advise as a "solution". Please change the KB 61362 to offer a more practical workaround. Sorry, but there is no way to cram even 1TB of OneDrive data onto a 256 or 512GB laptop SSD. OneDrive storage sizes can be large - 1TB is the base for Office subscribers - and business users such as my company have orders of magnitude larger storage available.
Given that laptops outsold desktops by nearly a 2:1 margin in 2017, most Acronis users likely will have laptops. The article only suggests that OneDrive should be set to download all files rather than only using placeholders. The Acronis KB article 61362 you referenced, however, borders on useless. That should be workable, as Azure storage is robust. simply do not back up the OneDrive folder. Your post contains a useable workaround for the problem of True Image's inability to handle OneDrive cloud links i.e.