User`s guide

7.1.6 Initial Seeding FAQ

This section explains what Initial Seeding is, why you would want to use it and provides some usage

details.

7.1.6.1 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. 217) option.

7.1.6.2 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.

7.1.6.3 Is Initial Seeding a paid service?

Yes, you need to buy one Initial Seeding license per machine.

7.1.6.4 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.

7.1.6.5 Can I send more than one backup under a single Initial Seeding

license?

Yes, if the backups are taken on the same machine and sent on the same disk.

For example, you may want to upload a volume backup and a number of file backups. Do as many

"initial seeding" backups as you wish and then send them to Acronis on the same disk. The Initial

Seeding license gets used when uploading to the online storage starts. You will receive an e-mail

notification informing you about this. Afterwards, creating a new "initial seeding" backup on the

same machine will require a new Initial Seeding license.

7.1.6.6 Can I send backups taken from a number of machines on a

single hard drive?

Yes. However, the number of required licenses is still one per machine.