Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 423)

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To get a trial subscription, do either of the following:
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On the account management webpage, click the cloud backup trial link, and then select the
necessary subscription type.
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Install Acronis Backup, start the product, connect the console to the machine you want to back
up, click Back up now or Create backup plan, click Location, and then click Get trial subscription.
Log in to your account (create one if you are not registered yet). A trial subscription will be
automatically created and assigned to the machine.
16.4 Activating cloud backup subscriptions
Activating a subscription on a machine means allowing the machine to back up to the cloud storage.
A volume subscription is activated automatically as soon as you start backing up the machine to
Acronis Cloud Storage.
A machine subscription (for PC or for server) needs to be activated manually. Its subscription period
starts at the moment of activation.
Important Before activating the first subscription for your account, check the country selected in your profile.
Depending on this country, the service determines the data center where your backups will be sent. Make sure
to select the country where all or most of the machines you want to back up to the cloud storage are located.
Otherwise, the data may unnecessarily travel a long way. Later, you will not be able to change the data center
even if you change the country in your profile. To access your profile, go to the Acronis website, select User
Login, log in to your account, and then click Personal Profile.
16.4.1 Activating subscriptions in Acronis Backup Advanced
To begin with, make sure that the machines whose subscriptions you want to activate are registered
on the management server and available (turned on).
If you need to back up ESX(i) virtual machines, bind them to Agent for VMware as described in the
"Agent for VMware binding" section of the "Backing up virtual machines" document. When activating
a subscription, select the machine where the agent is running.
To activate subscriptions
1. Connect the console to the management server.
2. On the Actions menu, click Activate cloud backup subscriptions.
3. Specify the credentials to log in to the cloud storage.
4. Select any number of machines from either the Workstations or the Servers list, and then click
Select subscription.
5. Select the type of subscriptions you want to activate for the machines. The number of the
subscriptions must be at least the same as the number of the selected machines.
6. Click Activate now.
7. Perform the previous three steps for other machines you want to activate subscriptions on.
Alternatively, you can activate a subscription when the console is connected to a machine instead of
the management server.
16.4.2 Reassigning an activated subscription
Sometimes you may want to use an already activated subscription instead of an available
subscription. In these cases, for example: