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Normally, there is no need to start and stop the cleanup task manually. But it is possible to do so in
the Backup plans and tasks view.
1.6.8 How to make a recovered machine recognize its
subscription?
When you recover a physical machine from a backup, a new machine identifier is created. Therefore,
the machine is not able to back up to the subscription it used before recovery.
To continue backing up the machine to the same subscription, reassign (p. 24) the subscription to the
machine. If you do this, the next machine's backup can be incremental. If you assign a new
subscription to the machine, the software will have to do a new full backup.
1.7 Initial Seeding FAQ
This section explains what Initial Seeding is, why you would want to use it and provides some usage
details.
1.7.1 What is Initial Seeding?
Initial Seeding is an extra service that lets you 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 hard disk drive is sent back to you but it is not possible to recover from it. However, recovery
from a locally attached device is possible with the Large scale recovery (p. 13) option.
1.7.2 Why would I want to use Initial Seeding?
This service helps you save time and network traffic during the initial full backup. It is useful when
backing up very large volumes of data or entire machines to the online storage.
1.7.3 Is Initial Seeding a paid service?
Yes, you need to buy one Initial Seeding license per machine.
1.7.4 What types of hard drive can I use for Initial Seeding?
Acronis accepts hard disk drives of the following interface types: IDE, ATA, SATA, USB connected
drives. SCSI drives are not accepted.
You can back up directly to the device or back up to a local or network folder and then copy the
backup to the device. Make sure that the device has only one volume and that the file system on that
volume is NTFS or FAT32.