The following is the list of terms related to the Acronis Cloud Backup service.
Activate a subscription
Allow the machine to use the cloud storage according to the subscription.
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 in order to renew its current subscription.
Assigned subscription
A subscription that has been assigned to a machine.
Available subscription
A subscription that is not assigned to any machine.
Extra service
A service that you can use in addition to cloud backup subscriptions.
Increase storage quota
Replace a subscription with another one that has a greater storage quota. The remaining subscription period is reduced in proportion to the capacity increase.
Initial Seeding
An extra service 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 cloud storage. After that, you can add incremental backups to this full backup, either manually or on a schedule.
The Initial Seeding service might be unavailable in your region. To find more information, click here: http://kb.acronis.com/content/15118.
Large Scale Recovery
An extra service that enables you to obtain a copy of the backups you have in the cloud storage. You can then recover data from this copy.
The Large Scale Recovery service might be unavailable in your region. To find more information, click here: http://kb.acronis.com/content/15118.
License
Not to be confused with Acronis Backup product license.
Permission for a machine to use an extra service of Acronis Cloud Backup.
You can buy Initial Seeding licenses and/or Large Scale Recovery licenses.
Reassign a subscription
Assign a subscription that is already activated, to a different machine.
Registration code
A character string for registering a subscription or license that was bought from an Acronis partner.
When you purchase such subscriptions or licenses, you receive a confirmation e-mail containing the registration codes for each of them. You then enter the registration codes on the account management webpage, and these subscriptions and licenses become available for use.
Renew a subscription
Assign a subscription of the same type and with the same or a larger storage quota as the current, activated subscription.
This subscription will become activated as soon as the current subscription expires.
Storage quota
The amount of storage space that can be occupied according to the subscription.
Subscription
Permission for a machine or for multiple machines to use a specific amount of space in the cloud storage, for a specific period of time.
Subscription period
The period during which the subscription remains activated. You can back up and recover the machine during this period. Recovery is possible for extra 30 days after this period ends.
Unassign a subscription
Make an assigned subscription available again.
You can unassign a subscription as long as it is not activated.