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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11 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 Custom backup scheme
Simplified naming of backup files
Replicating or moving backups to the online storage
Simultaneous host-based backup of multiple virtual machines
Operations with backups:
Exporting a backup
Mounting a backup
Converting an incremental backup to full
Converting a backup to a virtual machine
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.
By using the Backup performance > Network connection speed option, you can vary the transferring
speed as kilobytes per second, but not as a percentage.
12 Upgrading to Acronis Backup & Recovery 11
If you want to use types of storage other than Online Backup Storage, upgrade to Acronis Backup &
Recovery 11.
Buy one Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 license for each machine on which you want to upgrade the
product. Select any of the following editions:
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Server for Windows - for any server operating system
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Workstation - for non-server operating systems