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7.1
Activating subscriptions
To begin with, make sure that the machines whose subscriptions you want to activate are registered
on the management server and available (turned on).
To activate subscriptions
1.
Connect the console to the management server.
2.
In the
Actions
pane, click
Activate online backup subscriptions
.
3.
Specify the credentials to log in to the online storage.
4.
Select the machine and then click
Select subscription
.
5.
From
Available subscriptions
, select the subscription that you want to activate for the machine.
6.
Click
Activate now
.
7.
Perform the previous three steps for each machine for which you want to activate a subscription.
Alternatively, you can activate a subscription when the console is connected to a machine instead of
the management server.
7.2
Reassigning an activated subscription
Sometimes you may want to use an already activated subscription instead of an available
subscription. In these cases, for example:
You no longer need to back up one of your machines and you want to reuse that machine’s
subscription for another machine.
You reinstalled Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 on a machine and want to resume its online
backups.
You recovered a machine to bare metal (or to a state when it did not yet have an activated
subscription) and want to resume its online backups.
Reassigning a subscription does not restart its subscription period.
To assign an activated subscription to a machine
1.
On the machine to which you want to assign an activated subscription, go to the subscription
activation window.
2.
From
Activated subscriptions
, select the activated subscription that you want to reassign to the
machine.
3.
Click
Activate now
.
Example
The diagram below shows what happens if you reassign a subscription to a different machine. Let's
assume Machine 1 has four backups in Subscription 1. Machine 2 has two backups in Subscription 2.
At that point, you reassign Subscription 1 to Machine 2. Machine 2 does its third backup to
Subscription 1.
