Systems and methods for replicating a device image to a storage such as the cloud. The cloud is seeded with a base image that corresponds to the device. Changes between the contents of the device and the base image are identified, uploaded to the cloud, and applied to the image. The changes are tracked continuously and the image in the cloud can thus be used to restore the device to any point in time. The cloud image can also be used in a cloud based virtual machine that provides a user of the device with access to the device's contents via the cloud based image.