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[RESOLVED] Activation Question, License for 3 computers, 5 Hard Drives

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We have a license for 2013 to be installed on 3 computers.

2 of the computers have 2 OS drives and 1 backup storage drive.
Win7/64 and XP Pro is installed, one os on each drive.

1 computer has only XP Pro and a backup storage drive.

Total computers: 3

Will there be an activation issue if we install 2013 on each OS ? That will be a total of 5 installs on 3 computers.
Thanks for any cautions.
Steve
Perdido Beach, AL

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More than likely you will have issues with activation. The activation is for one machine with one OS.
You will only need to have 2013 installed in one OS though, as it can still backup the entire drive with no problem.
I would suggest that you install and activate one copy on each system, before attempting to install a fourth copy into the second OS on a system with it already installed. The activation may see the hardware as the same and let you activate it again, but I would not count on it.

James F wrote:
You will only need to have 2013 installed in one OS though, as it can still backup the entire drive with no problem.

This ^^^
You don't need every OS to have ATI installed. One installation per PC is sufficient.

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Tuttle,

Computer # 1: 3 Drives: Drive-1:WinXP Pro Drive-2:Win7/64 Drive-3:Backup Storage.
You say, I do not have to have ATI installed on each OS ? Interesting... However, If I boot to the Win7 Disc that DOES NOT contain TIH 2013 installation, then just how would one create that nice little incremental backup of Win7 ?? Boot to the XP Disc so that I can run TIH 2013 ?? That would be rather annoying.... Seems to me that I should be legal and able to install TIH on each of the drives on ONE computer and that count for only 1 of the 3 licenses ?
Thaks for your reply.
Steve

Perdido Beach wrote:
If I boot to the Win7 Disc that DOES NOT contain TIH 2013 installation, then just how would one create that nice little incremental backup of Win7 ?? Boot to the XP Disc so that I can run TIH 2013 ?? That would be rather annoying....

Install it to whichever OS you would normally run backups from. ATI will be able to make backups for the other OS, other disks, etc., no matter where it is installed.

Perdido Beach wrote:
Seems to me that I should be legal and able to install TIH on each of the drives on ONE computer and that count for only 1 of the 3 licenses ?

That's not a normal use of the product, so I'm sure the activation process doesn't account for that. If you want to discuss it with Acronis, contact them. As it is, I don't see that multiple installations per PC are necessary.

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ISSUE SOLVED...
Thanks for all the replies...
Aconis has confimed my question via private message.
A single license is good for ONE computer and is tied to the MotherBoard. It is quite legal to put TIH on several OS's / HD's on the same computer.
Likewise, a 3 computer license would permit one to install several copies of TIH on each HD on each of 3 computers.
Thus, in my case, with 3 licenses and 3 computers with 2 or more OS hard drives and a data backup hard drive in each computer, it would be permissable to install a copy of TIH on each HD as long as the installs were only on 3 computers. In my particular case, I ended up with 5 installs of TIH on 5 hard drives with each HD containing its' own boot OS. There was a reason for all this... Business use of XP and Win7 on the same computer where some software was only compatible with XP/32 and other software needed to be on Win7/64.
Thanks to the nice folks at Acronis for clarifying my licensing issue.
Steve
Perdido Beach, Al

Steve,

Thank you for posting the information provided to you from Acronis. The licensing issue is not clear from the online documentation provided in the forums and in the knowledge base articles (see my post #5 above).

James

That's good information. That's rather different from what the licencing page says, which is:
""Machine" means a single operating environment. For instance, each instance of a Windows or Linux operating system is considered a single "machine", even if multiple instances are installed on a single computer."
That seems to say that a single licence could be installed only to a single OS on a single PC.

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for your posts and your help.

I apologize for any confusion, according to Acronis licensing policy, we license our software per one machine, where a machine means a single operating environment. For example, each instance of an operating system on one computer is considered a single machine.

Please check our licensing policy from this link and our KB article that explains our licensing policy for True Image 2013 by Acronis in more detail.

I will be more than happy to clarify additional questions.

Thank you.

Anton wrote:
we license our software per one machine, where a machine means a single operating environment. For example, each instance of an operating system on one computer is considered a single machine.

Anton, that is pretty much what it says on the licensing page that James referenced. According to that page and to your comment, to install ATI on a single physical PC in both a Windows 7 partition and a Windows XP partition would require two licenses.

However, the thread poster Perdido Beach says that he was told something different by Acronis. He says he was told that he could have two installations of ATI on a single PC, one in Windows 7 partition and one in Windows XP partition, and that would require just a single license.

 Hello all,

Thank you for your interest.

Actually, the information provided by me was misleading.

Acronis license policy was changed some time ago, and I wasn't aware of it.  This was made because of some new Acronis programs that were tied to operating systems, where the usage of a a single license on different operating systems was impossible from the technical point of view, even if these operating systems were installed on a single computer. We had to change Acronis license policy to make it uniform for all the products.

Every operating system requires a separate license.  

Please accept my apologies for inconvenience. 

Oleg.