User guide
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Before activating the first subscription for your account, check the country selected in your
profile. Depending on this country, the service determines the data center where your future
backups will be sent. Make sure to select the country where all or most of the machines you
want to back up to the online storage are located. Otherwise, the data may unnecessarily travel a
long way. Later, you will not be able to change the data center even if you change the country in
your profile.
To access your profile, go to the Acronis Web site, select User Login, log in to your account, and
then click Personal Profile.
7.1 Activating subscriptions
To begin with, make sure that the machines whose subscriptions you want to activate are registered
on the management server and available (turned on).
If you need to back up ESX(i) virtual machines, bind them to Agent for ESX(i) as described in the
"Agent for ESX(i) binding" section of the "Backing up virtual machines" document. When activating
the subscription for virtual machines, select the machine where the agent is running.
To activate subscriptions
1. Connect the console to the management server.
2. On the Actions menu, click Activate online backup subscriptions.
3. Specify the credentials to log in to the online storage.
4. Select any number of machines from either the Workstations or the Servers list, and then click
Select subscription.
5. Select the type of subscriptions you want to activate for the machines. The number of the
subscriptions must be at least the same as the number of the selected machines.
6. Click Activate now.
7. Perform the previous three steps for other machines you want to activate subscriptions on.
Alternatively, you can activate a subscription when the console is connected to a machine instead of
the management server.
7.2 Reassigning an activated subscription
Sometimes you may want to use an already activated subscription instead of an available
subscription. In these cases, for example:
You no longer need to back up one of your machines and you want to reuse that machine’s
subscription for another machine.
You reinstalled Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 on a machine and want to resume its online
backups.
You recovered a machine to bare metal (or to a state when it did not yet have an activated
subscription) and want to resume its online backups.
Reassigning a subscription does not restart its subscription period.
To assign an activated subscription to a machine
1. On the machine to which you want to assign an activated subscription, go to the subscription
activation window.