User Guide

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13 Glossary
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Activate a subscription
Allow the machine to use the online storage according to the subscription. Subscription period (p. 28)
starts counting down when the subscription is activated.
Activated subscription
A subscription that is currently being used by a machine.
Assign a subscription to a machine
Reserve a subscription for a particular machine. Subscription period (p. 28) does not start counting
down until the subscription is activated.
Assigned subscription
A subscription that has been assigned (p. 27) to a machine.
Available subscription
A subscription that is not assigned to any machine.
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Extra service
A service that you can use in addition to online backup subscriptions (p. 28).
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Initial Seeding
An extra service (p. 27) that enables you to 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.
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Large Scale Recovery
An extra service (p. 27) that enables you to obtain a copy of the backups you have in the online
storage. You can then recover data from this copy.
License
Permission for a machine to use an extra service (p. 27) of Acronis Backup & Recovery Online.