8 terminology reference, Terminology reference – Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide User Manual

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Setting up regular conversion of backups to a virtual machine

Operations with backups:

Validating a backup*

Exporting a backup

Mounting a backup

Replicating or moving backups from the cloud storage

Converting an incremental backup to full

Operation with archives (an archive is a set of backups):

Validating an archive

Exporting an archive

These limitations also apply to backing up data using Initial Seeding and to recovering data using
Large Scale Recovery.

* An initial seeding backup is automatically validated immediately after its creation.

Backup and recovery options

Some backup and recovery options are not supported by cloud backups. For example, Backup
splitting
(p. 110).

By using the Backup performance > Network connection speed option, you can vary the transferring
speed as kilobytes per second, but not as a percentage.

16.8 Terminology reference

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.

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