How To Buy An Initial Seeding License; How To Perform Initial Seeding; How To Package A Hard Drive For Shipment - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 SERVER FOR WINDOWS - UPDATE 3 User Manual

7.1.6.7

How to buy an Initial Seeding license?

You can buy an Initial Seeding license from an Acronis partner or in Acronis online store. Follow the
link www.acronis.eu/my/backup-recovery-online/#buy http://www.acronis.eu/my/backup-recovery-
online/#buy to locate a partner or to buy online.
Having purchased a license from an Acronis partner, you receive a confirmation e-mail with a
registration code. Click Enter new registration code on the same web page and register the license.
The license becomes available on the Initial Seeding / Recovery tab.
A license purchased in Acronis online store becomes available immediately after the payment is
processed.
7.1.6.8

How to perform initial seeding?

1. Decide on the media (p. 212) that you will send.
2. Attach the media to the machine you are going to back up. Alternatively, you can back up to a
local or network folder and then copy/move the backup to the media.
3. Start Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, click Back up and create a backup plan on this machine:
 In Where to back up, specify Online Backup Storage.
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In What to back up, select disks, volumes or files/folders you want to back up.
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In Backup scheme, select Initial seeding. Specify the said media as the backup destination.
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[Optional, but strongly recommended] Enable backup encryption in Backup options >
Archive protection.
The backup starts immediately after you click the final OK.
4. [Optional] If you want to add more backups to the media, repeat step 3 selecting the different
data in What to back up. (Do not edit the backup plan, create a new one!)
5. [Optional] If you want to add backups from another machine, attach the media to that machine
and perform the same steps.
6. Package (p. 213) the media along with a prepaid return shipping label and send it to Acronis by
physical mail. The address is available on your account management Web page > Initial Seeding /
Recovery tab > Orders in process > Initial Seeding orders > Datacenter address.
7. On the same web page, mark the order as "shipped" and track (p. 216) the order status.
8. Once you observe that the backup has been uploaded on the online storage, you can edit the
backup plan to do incremental backups:
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In Backup scheme, select Back up now, Back up later for manual backups or Simple for
scheduled backups.
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For Simple, specify the schedule and (optionally) the retention rule.
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Click Save.
When started manually or on schedule, your backup plan will add incremental backups to the
initial backup stored in the online storage.
7.1.6.9

How to package a hard drive for shipment?

It is very important that your hard drive be packaged carefully. Careful packaging will protect your
drive from any damage during shipment.
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