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12.7 Limitations of the cloud storage
Unlike other types of storage available in Acronis Backup, the cloud storage has the following
limitations.
Operations
The following operations are not possible.
Backup operations:
Backing up from bootable media
Backing up with Agent for Exchange
Creating differential backups
Using the Custom backup scheme
Simplified naming of backup files
Simultaneous host-based backup of multiple virtual machines
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. 82).
By using the Backup performance > Network connection speed option, you can vary the transferring
speed as kilobytes per second, but not as a percentage.
12.8 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.
