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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Monthly backup of the operating system and installed programs, with the first (large) backup
being sent on a hard drive; and deleting backups older than six months. See "Backing up using
Initial Seeding (p. 23)".
The Initial Seeding service might be unavailable in your region. To find more information, click here:
http://kb.acronis.com/content/15118.
By modifying the schedule or items to back up in these instructions, you can set up a backup strategy
that best suits your needs. For detailed information about backup please refer to Acronis Backup &
Recovery 11 built-in help.
6.1 Backing up an individual machine
In this step, you will set up a daily backup of files from a machine to the online storage. Using a
similar procedure, you can back up a machine's volumes or an entire machine.
In Acronis Backup & Recovery 11, individual machines are backed up according to a set of rules called
a backup plan.
Before creating a backup plan, make sure that you activated (p. 21) a subscription for the machine.
To back up files to the online storage
1. Start Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.
2. Click Create backup plan.
3. Under What to back up, click Items to back up.
4. In Data to back up, select Files, and then select the files and folders that you want to back up.
Click OK to close the window.
5. Under Where to back up, click Location, and choose your online storage. If you are not
authorized yet, click Log in and specify your credentials for the online storage.
6. You can also change the default archive name. Click OK to close the window.
7. Under How to back up, in Backup scheme, select Simple.
Details. This scheme will perform the first full backup and subsequent incremental backups. Each
backup will run on the default schedule.
8. In Retention rules, select Delete backups older than..., and then specify the value of 1 month.
9. Click OK to save the backup plan.
Details. You will see the Backup plans and tasks view with the backup plan you have just
created.
6.2 Backing up using Initial Seeding
This section illustrates how to set up a backup plan to perform monthly disk-level backups of a
machine. You will use the Initial Seeding scheme to upload the initial full backup.
Subsequent backups, which are incremental and thus are usually much smaller, will be transferred
over the Internet. You can run incremental backups manually or on a schedule, after the full backup
has been uploaded to the online storage.
You need a separate license, called an Initial Seeding license, for each machine that you want to back
up under this scheme. Each Initial Seeding license allows you to upload one backup from a single
machine to the online storage.