User guide

11.6 Limitations of the online storage

Unlike other types of storage available in Acronis Backup & Recovery 11, the online storage has the

following limitations.

Operations

The following operations are not possible.

Backup operations:

 Backing up from bootable media

 Backing up under Linux

 Creating differential backups

 Using the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS), Tower of Hanoi, and Custom backup schemes

 Simplified naming of backup files

 Converting a backup to a virtual machine

Recovery operation:

 Recovering a backup as a virtual machine

Operations with backups:

 Exporting a backup

 Mounting a backup

 Copying or moving backups to the online storage

Operation with archives (an archive is a set of backups):

 Exporting an archive

These limitations also apply to backing up data using Initial Seeding and to recovering data using

Large Scale Recovery.

Backup and recovery options

Some backup and recovery options are not supported by online backups. For example, Backup

splitting (p. 81).

By using the Backup performance > Network connection speed option, you can vary the transferring

speed as kilobytes per second, but not as a percentage.

11.7 Terminology reference

The following is the list of terms related to the Acronis Backup & Recovery Online service.

Activate a subscription

Allow the machine to use the online storage according to the subscription. Subscription period starts

counting down when the subscription is activated.

Activated subscription

A subscription that is currently being used by a machine.