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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To continue backing up the machine to the same subscription, reassign (p. 21) the subscription to the
machine. If you do this, the next machine's backup can be incremental. If you assign a new
subscription to the machine, the software will have to do a new full backup.
1.6 Initial Seeding FAQ
This section explains what Initial Seeding is, why you would want to use it and provides some usage
details.
1.6.1 What is Initial Seeding?
Initial Seeding is an extra service that lets you save an initial full backup locally and then send it to
Acronis on a hard disk drive.
Acronis uploads the backup to the online storage. After that, you can add incremental backups to this
full backup, either manually or on a schedule.
The hard disk drive is sent back to you but it is not possible to recover from it. However, recovery
from a locally attached device is possible with the Large scale recovery (p. 13) option.
1.6.2 Why would I want to use Initial Seeding?
This service helps you save time and network traffic during the initial full backup. It is useful when
backing up very large volumes of data or entire machines to the online storage.
1.6.3 Is Initial Seeding a paid service?
Yes, you need to buy one Initial Seeding license per machine.
1.6.4 What types of hard drive can I use for Initial Seeding?
Acronis accepts hard disk drives of the following interface types: IDE, ATA, SATA, USB connected
drives. SCSI drives are not accepted.
You can back up directly to the device or back up to a local or network folder and then copy the
backup to the device. Make sure that the device has only one volume and that the file system on that
volume is NTFS or FAT32.
1.6.5 Can I send more than one backup under a single Initial
Seeding license?
No. An Initial Seeding license allows you to create only one backup on the machine.
However, if you have made a mistake or have decided to create another backup for any reason, you
can cancel the initial seeding order. As a result, the license will become available again.
1.6.6 Can I send backups taken from a number of machines on a
single hard drive?
Yes. However, the number of required licenses is still one per machine.