Acronis Backup Advanced (Cloud) - User Guide - Manual (Page 4)

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This document explains how to use Acronis Backup for cloud backups by taking advantage of the
Acronis Cloud Backup service.
Acronis Cloud Backup enables you to back up an individual server or workstation to Acronis Cloud
Storage.
This document contains an overview of Acronis Cloud Backup and step-by-step instructions for the
typical software installation and usage scenarios. The instructions are intended to help users who are
not familiar with Acronis Backup with their first cloud backups. For detailed information about the
functionality provided by Acronis Backup, please refer to the product help system. Context-sensitive
help is available in every program window by pressing F1.
1 Introduction to Acronis Cloud Backup
This section contains a brief overview of Acronis Cloud Backup and answers questions that may arise
during evaluation and usage of this product.
1.1 What is Acronis Cloud Backup?
Acronis Cloud Backup is a service that enables you to back up data to Acronis Cloud Storage. To use
this service, you need to buy a subscription that determines the amount of storage space reserved
for your backups (storage quota) and how long the cloud backup service will be available to you.
Examples of subscriptions:

A 1 TB volume subscription means that you can back up data from an unlimited number of
physical and/or virtual machines, for a period of one year. The backups can occupy no more than
one terabyte.
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A subscription for PC means that you can back up data from a machine running a non-server
Windows operating system, for a period of one year. The storage quota is unlimited.
1.2 What data can I back up and recover?
You can back up any files, volumes, or the entire physical machine as often as you wish. Unlike most
cloud backup solutions, Acronis Cloud Backup enables bare metal recovery directly from the cloud
storage. Files can be recovered from disk-level backups as well as from file-level backups.
1.3 How long will my backups be kept in the cloud
storage?
Your backups remain in the cloud storage until you delete them or until the subscription expires.
Recovering data from the cloud storage is possible for 30 days following the subscription expiration
date.
For effective use of the storage space, you have the option to set up the "Delete backups older than"
retention rule.
Example
You might want to use the following backup strategy for a file server.