Licensing schemes
Acronis Backup products have 2 licensing schemes: subscription licenses and perpetual licenses.
Perpetual licenses are unlimited in time. Subscription licenses are valid for 1, 2, or 3 years. After a subscription expires, all product functionality except recovery will be blocked until further subscription renewal. Backed up data is still accessible for recovery.
Both types of licenses can be used in one environment.
Additionally, space in Acronis Cloud Storage can be purchased. Cloud storage licenses are volume subscriptions valid for 1 year. Cloud storage is licensed by the amount of storage allocated in Acronis cloud regardless of the number of machines.
Operations, not installations, are licensed in Acronis Backup. Management components (Acronis Management Server, Acronis Storage Node and Acronis Backup Appliance) do not require additional licenses, you only need licenses for machines\hosts you want to perform operations with.
Licenses
Acronis Backup 12.5 has 2 editions: Standard and Advanced. See Difference between Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard, Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced for details.
Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard
| License | Valid for |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Workstation |
1 license per one machine (Windows desktop operating systems, OS X), physical or virtual Please note: This license does NOT support Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint or Active Directory backup. If you want to back up Microsoft applications installed on Workstation OS, a Server license edition is needed (see "Acronis Backup 12.5 Server" section) |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Server | 1 license per one Windows or Linux machine (server operating system), physical or virtual, with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Active Directory included |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Windows Server Essentials | 1 license per one Windows Server Essentials, physical or virtual, with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Active Directory included |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Virtual Host |
1 license per one physical host (VMware, Hyper-V or Virtuozzo) with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Active Directory included * ** When using the product on a cluster, each host in the cluster requires a license. |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Office 365 |
only subscription licenses |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 G Suite |
only subscription licenses |
* A single Acronis Backup license is required to back up host and all virtual machines on 1 host along with Exchange Server/SQL Server/SharePoint Server/Active Directory databases running on these machines.
** Backup of KVM, Citrix, OracleVM, RHEV virtual machines requires Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced Virtual Host license (see below)
Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced
| License | Valid for |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced Workstation |
1 license per one machine (Windows desktop operating systems, OS X), physical or virtual Please note: This license does NOT support Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint or Active Directory backup. If you want to back up Microsoft applications installed on Workstation OS, a Server license edition is needed (see "Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced Server" section) |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced Server | 1 license per one Windows or Linux machine (server operating system), physical or virtual, with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Active Directory included |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced Virtual Host |
1 license per one physical host (VMware, Hyper-V, Virtuozzo, RHEV, KVM, XEN, Oracle VM) with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Active Directory and Oracle DB included * When using the product on a cluster, each host in the cluster requires a license. |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced Office 365 | only subscription licenses 1 license for 5, 25 or 100 seats |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced G Suite | only subscription licenses 1 license for 5, 25 or 100 seats |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced Universal License | only perpetual license, 1 license per one physical host (unlimited virtual machines on the host) with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Active Directory included * |
* A single Acronis Backup license is required to back up host and all virtual machines on 1 host along with Exchange Server/SQL Server/SharePoint Server/Active Directory/Oracle DB running on these machines. If you plan to install Acronis Backup Agent inside a virtual machine, see this article for more information about license assignment.
Acronis Cloud Storage licenses
Cloud storage is available as a 1-, 2-, or 3-year subscriptions with these quotas:
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 250 GB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 500 GB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 1 TB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 2 TB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 3 TB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 4 TB
- Acronis Cloud Storage Subscription License 5 TB
The quota is shared among all the machines registered in the account.
(!) Acronis Cloud Storage is an add-on that requires a base Acronis Backup license
Licensing of mobile devices
Backup of mobile devices is enabled once an Acronis Cloud Storage quota is registered in the account. You can back up unlimited number of mobile devices as long as Acronis Cloud Storage quota suffices.
Acronis Disaster Recovery Add-on licenses
Acronis Disaster Recovery service consists of several licenses that can be purchased as a Pack or separately.
Note that Acronis Disaster Recovery is only feasible for cloud deployment and requires an active Acronis Backup subscription.
| Acronis Disaster Recovery Add-on Storage |
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Hot storage space necessary to start failover server from a backup stored in Acronis Cloud Storage. Available as 1, 2 or 3 year subscription |
| Acronis Disaster Recovery Add-on Compute Points |
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Compute points is a currency used to achieve the necessary performance of the running failover server. For example, 500 Compute Points is enough to run a failover server with 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM for about 5 days. These licenses do not have an expiration date, but they are valid while Disaster Recovery Storage subscription is active. |
| Acronis Disaster Recovery Add-on Public IP Address | 1 machine |
Enables an external IP address for failover server and makes it available from the Internet. Available as 1, 2 or 3 year subscription |
| Acronis Recovery Disaster Add-on Pack | 250 GB Disaster Recovery Hot Storage, 500 GB Acronis Backup Cloud Storage, 500 Compute Points |
A starter bundle license which includes 500GB of cold Acronis Cloud Storage to store backups, 250GB of hot Disaster Recovery Storage to run a failover server, 500 Compute Points to allow a failover server running in the Acronis Cloud infrastructure for some period depending on server configuration. Available as 1, 2 or 3 year subscription |
More information
- Terminal servers/multipoint servers require 1 license per physical machine.
- Management Server can only be installed on Windows or Linux. If you have environment with Macs only (or a single Mac to protect) it is recommended to use subscription license with Cloud deployment. See User Guide for more information on Cloud deployment.
- Complete licensing policy can be found here.