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, 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.
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 |
| 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 or Hyper-V) with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Active Directory included * |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Office 365 |
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/Oracle databases running on these machines.
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 |
| 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, RHEV, KVM, XEN, Oracle VM) with support of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Active Directory included * |
| Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced Office 365 | only subscription licenses 1 license for 5, 25 or 100 mailboxes |
| 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 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.
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.