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the backup will fail. With a server subscription, you can only back up the Windows host. With a
subscription for virtual machines, you can back up both the Windows host and its virtual machines.
Trial subscriptions
You can get one free workstation subscription, server subscription, or subscription for virtual
machines per account. The storage quota of the trial subscription is equal to that of the standard
subscription. The subscription period is limited to 2 months.
Obtaining a trial subscription is possible until you buy a paid subscription. You can use a trial
subscription along with paid ones. The same expiration rules apply to trial and paid subscriptions.
To continue using the service after the trial subscription expires, buy the same type subscription and
renew the trial subscription specifying the paid subscription. Your backed up data will be kept online.
Regular backups of your machines will continue uninterrupted. The service will not need to perform a
new full backup.
7.4 Activating online backup subscriptions
To be able to back up a machine to the online storage, you need to purchase and activate a
subscription to the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online service. You can purchase subscriptions on
the Acronis Web site or from an Acronis reseller.
Before activating a subscription, please take into account the following considerations:
 As soon as a subscription is activated, its subscription period starts. To avoid losing subscription
time, activate the subscription only when you are ready to back up the machine.
 If a machine already has a subscription, the new subscription will replace the old one. You can
reassign the old subscription to a different machine—see “Reassigning an activated subscription”
later in this section.
7.4.1 Activating subscriptions
To activate a subscription
1. Start Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.
2. In the Actions pane, click Activate online backup subscription.
3. Specify the credentials to log in to the online storage.
4. From Available subscriptions, select the subscription that you want to activate for the machine.
5. Click Activate now.
7.4.2 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 & Recovery 10 on a machine and want to resume its online
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 online backups.