User Guide

5 Activating online backup subscriptions

To be able to back up a machine to the online storage, you need to purchase and activate a

subscription to the Acronis Backup & Recovery Online service. You can purchase subscriptions on the

Acronis Web site or from an Acronis reseller.

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.

5.1 Activating subscriptions

To activate a subscription

1. Start Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.

2. In the Actions pane, 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 10 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.

At that point, you reassign Subscription 1 to Machine 2. Machine 2 does its third backup to

Subscription 1.