User manual ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 ONLINE ADVANCED

[. . . ] Acronis® Backup & Recovery TM Online Advanced User's Guide Table of contents 1 Introduction to Acronis Backup & Recovery Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1. 1 1. 2 1. 3 1. 4 1. 5 1. 6 What is Acronis Backup & Recovery Online?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 What data can I back up and recover?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 How long will my backups be kept in the online storage?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 How to secure my data?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 How to back up virtual machines to the online storage? [. . . ] The subscriptions will appear in the list of available subscriptions under the Manage Subscriptions tab. If you purchased your subscriptions online using the Acronis Web site, they are available immediately on your account management Web page. The newly obtained subscriptions are listed at the Manage Subscriptions tab. 1. 9. 3 When does my subscription begin? Your subscription begins when you choose to have it begin, not at the time of purchase. The first activation occurs when you assign a subscription to a certain machine. To do so, you need to have Acronis software installed. 1. 9. 4 What happens when my subscription expires? A month before the subscription expiration date you receive an e-mail notification with an alert. In addition, you can see this alert on the account management web page near the machine. If you do not renew the subscription, you will be able to back up data to the online storage for five days following the expiration date. You will be able to recover data from the online storage for 30 days following the expiration date. 1. 9. 5 How do I renew a subscription? Buy another subscription and specify it as the next subscription of the same machine. The new subscription will be activated as soon as the current subscription expires. An expired subscription can be renewed within five days after expiration. In such cases, the new subscription will be activated immediately. 1. 9. 5. 1 Renewing a single subscription To renew a subscription 1. Make sure that you have an available subscription with the same storage quota. Select the machine that you want to renew the subscription for, and then click Renew. The subscription appears in the Next subscription column for the selected machine. 1. 9. 5. 2 Renewing a number of activated subscriptions at once This operation is possible if the appropriate number of new subscriptions are identical to the currently used subscriptions. Make sure the new subscriptions are available on your account management Web page. The confirmation window will summarize which subscriptions will be renewed. If identical subscriptions are not found for some of the machines, you have the option to cancel automatic renewal and renew each subscription individually. 15 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2010 1. 9. 5. 3 What does "Auto-renew" mean? Auto-renewal means that when the current subscription expires, the next subscription will be automatically selected from the available subscriptions. If an identical subscription is not found, auto-renewal will not take place and your backups may fail. Only those subscriptions available at the time of auto-renewal can be used. You can select auto-renewal for each individual subscription or set up bulk auto-renewal of all of the activated subscriptions you have. 1. 9. 6 What is the "Group"column for? So you can apply actions, such as Renew all or Auto-renew all, to your selection of the subscriptions. Specify the desired group name, for example, SalesDept, near each of the subscriptions you want to group. Click the Group column header to sort the subscriptions and then apply the desired actions to the group. 1. 9. 7 Can I revoke a subscription from a machine? You cannot return an activated subscription to the list of available subscriptions, but you can reassign (p. [. . . ] Under Where to recover, select the disk where the master boot record (MBR) will be recovered to. Map each volume selected for recovery to a volume or an unallocated space on the destination disk. For detailed information about recovery please refer to the context-sensitive help. 13 Limitations of the online storage Unlike other types of storage available in Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, the online storage has the following limitations. Operations The following operations are not possible. Backup operations: 30 Backing up from bootable media Backing up under Linux Creating differential backups Using the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS), Tower of Hanoi, and Custom backup schemes Simplified naming of backup files Converting a backup to a virtual machine Recovery operation: Recovering a backup as a virtual machine Operations with backups: Exporting a backup Mounting a backup Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2010 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. [. . . ]