User manual
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction to Acronis Cloud Backup
- 1.1 What is Acronis Cloud Backup?
- 1.2 What data can I back up and recover?
- 1.3 How long will my backups be kept in the cloud storage?
- 1.4 How do I secure my data?
- 1.5 Supported operating systems and virtualization products
- 1.6 Backup and recovery FAQ
- 1.6.1 What backup methods are available?
- 1.6.2 What recovery methods are available?
- 1.6.3 Is the cloud storage available under Acronis bootable media?
- 1.6.4 Can I use Acronis Universal Restore when recovering a system from the cloud storage?
- 1.6.5 What if a network connection is lost during cloud backup or recovery?
- 1.6.6 What happens if I run out of space?
- 1.6.7 What is the cleanup task for?
- 1.6.8 How do I make a recovered machine recognize its subscription?
- 1.7 Initial Seeding FAQ
- 1.7.1 What is Initial Seeding?
- 1.7.2 Why would I want to use Initial Seeding?
- 1.7.3 Is Initial Seeding a paid service?
- 1.7.4 What types of hard drive can I use for Initial Seeding?
- 1.7.5 Can I send more than one backup under a single Initial Seeding license?
- 1.7.6 Can I send backups taken from a number of machines on a single hard drive?
- 1.7.7 How to buy an Initial Seeding license?
- 1.7.8 How do I perform initial seeding?
- 1.7.9 How to package a hard drive for shipment?
- 1.7.10 How do I track an Initial Seeding order status?
- 1.8 Large Scale Recovery FAQ
- 1.8.1 What is Large Scale Recovery?
- 1.8.2 Why would I use Large Scale Recovery?
- 1.8.3 Do I need to perform initial seeding to be able to use Large Scale Recovery?
- 1.8.4 Is Large Scale Recovery a paid service?
- 1.8.5 Can I perform large scale recovery on a different machine?
- 1.8.6 Can I obtain backups taken from a number of machines on a single hard drive?
- 1.8.7 How to buy a Large Scale Recovery license?
- 1.8.8 How do I track a Large Scale Recovery order status?
- 1.8.9 How to perform large scale recovery?
- 1.9 Subscription lifecycle FAQ
- 1.9.1 How do I access my account management webpage?
- 1.9.2 Where do I find the subscriptions that I purchased?
- 1.9.3 When does my subscription begin?
- 1.9.4 What happens when my subscription expires?
- 1.9.5 How do I renew a subscription?
- 1.9.6 What is the “Group” column for?
- 1.9.7 Can I revoke a subscription from a machine?
- 1.9.8 Can I cancel my subscription?
- 2 Where do I start?
- 3 Choosing a subscription
- 4 Software installation
- 5 Activating cloud backup subscriptions
- 6 Backup to the cloud storage
- 7 Accessing backups stored in the cloud storage
- 8 Operations with backups stored in the cloud storage
- 9 Recovery from the cloud storage
- 10 Retrieving files from the cloud storage by using a web browser
- 11 Limitations of the cloud storage
- 12 Technical Support
- 13 Glossary
- Activate a subscription
- Activated subscription
- Assign a subscription to a machine
- Assigned subscription
- Available subscription
- Extra service
- Increase storage quota
- Initial Seeding
- Large Scale Recovery
- License
- Reassign a subscription
- Registration code
- Renew a subscription
- Storage quota
- Subscription
- Subscription period
- Unassign a subscription
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3. Click Select data and then click Browse.
4. In the list of locations, expand Personal. Click the vault whose name is the e-mail address that
you use to log in to the cloud storage, such as: user@example.com. Click OK to confirm your
selection.
5. Select the backup from which you want to recover data.
6. If the selected backup is a disk-level one, in Backup contents, select Files. If the backup is a
file-level one, skip this step.
7. Select the files that you want to recover. Click OK to confirm your selection.
Details. Here, you can specify the date and time to which you want to revert your files if there is
more than one backup in the archive.
8. Click Destination, click New location, and then specify the folder to recover the files to. Or you
can select this folder from the folder tree. Click OK to confirm your selection.
Tip. By default, the software recovers files to the location from which they were backed up. This
may require a reboot if some of the files are locked by the operating system.
9. Click OK to immediately start the recovery.
Details. You will see the window with the recovery task details.
9.2 Recovering volumes
These steps show how to recover a machine’s system and boot volumes from a disk backup stored in
the cloud storage.
To recover system and boot volumes from the cloud storage
1. Start Acronis Backup.
2. Click Recover.
3. Click Select data and then click Browse.
4. In the list of locations, expand Personal. Click the vault whose name is the e-mail address that
you use to log in to the cloud storage, such as: user@example.com. Click OK to confirm your
selection.
5. Select the backup from which you want to recover data.
6. In Backup contents, select Volumes.
7. Select the system volume and the boot volume. Click OK to confirm your selection.
Details. It is assumed that you can identify the system and boot volumes by their labels. For
Windows operating systems prior to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the system
volume and the boot volume are commonly the same.
8. Under Where to recover, select the disk where the master boot record (MBR) will be recovered
to.
9. Map each volume selected for recovery to a volume or an unallocated space on the destination
disk.
10. If you are recovering the system to dissimilar hardware by using the Universal Restore feature,
specify the path to the motherboard, mass storage and network adapter drivers for that
hardware.
Tip. If the target hardware has a specific mass storage controller such as RAID (especially NVIDIA
RAID) or a fibre channel adapter, explicitly specify the mass storage drivers for them. To do so,
click Mass storage drivers to install anyway and then specify the drivers.
11. Click OK to immediately start the recovery.
Details. You will see the window with the recovery task details.