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12.4 Activating cloud backup subscriptions
Activating a subscription on a machine means allowing the machine to back up to the cloud storage.
A volume subscription is activated automatically as soon as you start backing up the machine to
Acronis Cloud Storage.
A subscription for PC needs to be activated manually. Its subscription period starts at the moment of
activation.
Important 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 backups will be sent. Make sure
to select the country where all or most of the machines you want to back up to the cloud 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 website, select User
Login, log in to your account, and then click Personal Profile.
12.4.1 Activating subscriptions in Acronis Backup
To activate a subscription
1. Start Acronis Backup.
2. On the Actions menu, click Activate cloud backup subscription.
3. Specify the credentials to log in to the cloud storage.
4. Select the subscription that you want to activate for the machine.
5. Click Activate now.
12.4.2 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 on a machine and want to resume its cloud 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 cloud 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.
2. Click Reassign an already used subscription.
3. Select the machine whose subscription you want to reassign to the current machine.
4. Click Reassign now.
Example
The diagram below shows what happens if you reassign a subscription to a different machine. Let's
assume Machine 1 has four backups in Subscription 1. Machine 2 has two backups in Subscription 2.
At that point, you reassign Subscription 1 to Machine 2. Machine 2 does its third backup to
Subscription 1.