Stand-alone
Table Of Contents
- Introduction to Acronis Backup & Recovery Online
- What is Acronis Backup & Recovery Online?
- What data can I back up and recover?
- How long will my backups be kept in the online storage?
- How to secure my data?
- Backup and recovery FAQ
- What backup methods are available?
- What recovery methods are available?
- Is the online storage available under Acronis bootable media?
- Can I use Acronis Universal Restore when recovering a system from the online storage?
- What if a network connection is lost during online backup or recovery?
- What happens if I run out of space?
- What is the cleanup task for?
- How to make a recovered machine recognize its subscription?
- Initial Seeding FAQ
- What is Initial Seeding?
- Why would I want to use Initial Seeding?
- Is Initial Seeding a paid service?
- What types of hard drive can I use for Initial Seeding?
- Can I send more than one backup under a single Initial Seeding license?
- Can I send backups taken from a number of machines on a single hard drive?
- How to buy an Initial Seeding license?
- How to perform initial seeding?
- How to package a hard drive for shipment?
- How do I track an Initial Seeding order status?
- Large Scale Recovery FAQ
- What is Large Scale Recovery?
- Why would I use Large Scale Recovery?
- Do I need to perform initial seeding to be able to use Large Scale Recovery?
- Is Large Scale Recovery a paid service?
- Can I perform large scale recovery on a different machine?
- Can I obtain backups taken from a number of machines on a single hard drive?
- How to buy a Large Scale Recovery license?
- How do I track a Large Scale Recovery order status?
- How to perform large scale recovery?
- Subscription lifecycle FAQ
- How to access my account management Web page?
- Where do I find the subscriptions that I purchased?
- When does my subscription begin?
- What happens when my subscription expires?
- How do I renew a subscription?
- How do I increase a storage quota for a machine?
- What is the “Group” column for?
- Can I revoke a subscription from a machine?
- Can I cancel my subscription?
- Where do I start?
- Choosing a subscription
- Software installation
- Activating online backup subscriptions
- Backup to the online storage
- Accessing backups stored in the online storage
- Operations with backups stored in the online storage
- Recovery from the online storage
- Retrieving files from the online storage by using a Web browser
- Limitations of the online storage
- Upgrading to Acronis Backup & Recovery 11
- Technical Support
- 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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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.
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 future
backups will be sent. Make sure to select the country where all or most of the machines you
want to back up to the online 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 Web site, select User Login, log in to your account, and
then click Personal Profile.
5.1 Activating subscriptions
To activate a subscription
1. Start Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.
2. On the Actions menu, 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.
5.2 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 11 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.
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. From Activated subscriptions, select the activated subscription that you want to reassign to the
machine.
3. Click Activate 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.