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17 Glossary
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Activate a subscription
Allow the machine to use the online storage according to the subscription. Subscription period (p. 37)
starts counting down when the subscription is activated.
Activated subscription
A subscription that is currently being used by a machine.
Assign a subscription to a machine
Reserve a subscription for a particular machine. Subscription period (p. 37) does not start counting
down until the subscription is activated.
Assigned subscription
A subscription that has been assigned (p. 36) to a machine.
Available subscription
A subscription that is not assigned to any machine.
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Extra service
A service that you can use in addition to online backup subscriptions (p. 37).
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Increase storage quota
Replace a subscription (p. 37) with another one that has a greater storage quota. The remaining
subscription period (p. 37) is reduced in proportion to the capacity increase.
Initial Seeding
An extra service (p. 36) that enables you to save an initial full backup locally and then send it to
Acronis on a hard disk drive. Acronis uploads the backup to the online storage. After that, you can
add incremental backups to this full backup, either manually or on a schedule.
The Initial Seeding service might be unavailable in your region. To find more information, click here:
http://kb.acronis.com/content/15118.