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A license purchased in Acronis online store becomes available immediately after the payment is
processed.
1.6.8
How to perform initial seeding?
1.
Decide on the media (p. 7) 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
.
In
What to back up
, select disks, volumes or files/folders you want to back up.
In
Backup scheme
, select
Initial seeding
. Specify the said media as the backup destination.
[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. 8) 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. 10) 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:
In
Backup scheme
, select
Back up now
,
Back up later
for manual backups or
Simple
for
scheduled backups.
For
Simple
, specify the schedule and (optionally) the retention rule.
Click
Save
.
When started manually or on schedule, your backup plan will add incremental backups to the
initial backup stored in the online storage.
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.
Hard drive types
Acronis accepts hard disk drives of the following interface types: IDE, ATA, SATA, USB connected
drives.
SCSI drives are not accepted.
Packaging
If possible, use the original packaging. Otherwise, packaging materials can be obtained at any
shipping outlet or stationary store.
