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1.8.1 What is Initial Seeding?

Initial Seeding is an extra service that lets you save an initial full backup locally and then send it to
Acronis on a hard disk drive.

Acronis uploads the backup to the cloud storage. After that, you can add incremental backups to this
full backup, either manually or on a schedule.

The hard disk drive is sent back to you but it is not possible to recover from it. However, recovery
from a locally attached device is possible with the Large scale recovery (p. 14) option.

1.8.2 Why would I want to use Initial Seeding?

This service helps you save time and network traffic during the initial full backup. It is useful when
backing up very large volumes of data or entire machines to the cloud storage.

1.8.3 Is Initial Seeding a paid service?

Yes, you need to buy one Initial Seeding license per machine.

1.8.4 What types of hard drive can I use for Initial Seeding?

Acronis accepts hard disk drives of the following interface types: IDE, ATA, SATA, USB connected
drives. SCSI drives are not accepted.

You can back up directly to the device or back up to a local or network folder and then copy the
backup to the device. Make sure that the device has only one volume and that the file system on that
volume is NTFS or FAT32.

1.8.5 Can I send more than one backup under a single Initial

Seeding license?

No. An Initial Seeding license allows you to create only one backup on the machine.

However, if you have made a mistake or have decided to create another backup for any reason, you
can cancel the initial seeding order. As a result, the license will become available again.

1.8.6 Can I send backups taken from a number of machines on a

single hard drive?

Yes. However, the number of required licenses is still one per machine.

1.8.7 How to buy an Initial Seeding license?

You can buy an Initial Seeding license from an Acronis partner or from the Acronis online store.

Having purchased a license from an Acronis partner, you receive a confirmation e-mail with a
registration code. Log in to your Acronis account and enter the registration code in the product
registration section. The registered license appears on the Initial Seeding / Recovery tab on your
account management webpage.