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There are two types of backup: file-based, and image-based. Apple’s own Time Machine does a good job of blending the two together, giving you both the ability to roll back individual files as well as your entire Mac should the need arise, but it does swallow up disk space at an alarming rate.
Acronis is well known in the Windows sphere for its True Image drive-imaging tool, and this is its attempt to crack the Mac market. Its main selling points are its versatility and simplicity. It’s versatile in supporting both local and cloud-based backups, with support for any network-attached drive, not just those specifically engineered to work with Time Machine.
Acronis True Image is designed with simplicity in mind too: once installed, launch the app and click Free Trial. You'll need an Acronis account to obtain your 'unlimited' cloud store storage space with Acronis’ online backup service, although you are still able to back to a network or other local drive.
Now you’ll be prompted to click to select a backup source – typically your Mac install drive, but Acronis can also back up any recognisable drive attached to your Mac. One thing Acronis can’t work with is Bootcamp, which will be a deal-breaker for those who’ve set up their Mac to run OS X and Windows side-by-side. It won’t even let you simply back up your Mac partitions either.
If this doesn’t end your interest, you can then click to select your destination – Acronis Cloud is prominently displayed at the top, but any external drives are also accessible with a single click. Alternatively, click Choose Other Location… to pick a specific folder or locate a network drive.
Next, click Settings, which lets you choose a schedule for regularly updating your backup and – if necessary – encrypting the backup with a password for security reasons. Then click Start Backup and let it do its work.
Local backups are stored in the proprietary .tib format, which are compressed and requires True Image itself to browse and restore (either individual files or the entire image). Cloud-based backups are backed up on a per-file basis.
Up to 10 backups are kept at a time – when you make the eleventh backup, the oldest is deleted. Change the backup location to preserve these older backups. Finally, make sure you create backup rescue media using a blank 4GB USB flash drive when prompted – this will allow you to restore your drive image even when your Mac isn’t bootable.
Verdict:
Much-improved Mac backup and restore tool.
Restoring to dissimilar hardware is not available on Mac (neither for OS X, nor for the Bootcamp partition).
Acronis Universal Restore is a free tool available for Acronis customers, which allows you to make the old system bootable on new hardware. This may be useful, for example, after replacing a failed motherboard or when deciding to migrate the system from one computer to another.
Restore to dissimilar hardware procedure overview:
- Validate the backup you want to restore from.
- Prepare necessary drivers.
- Create Acronis Bootable Media with Acronis Universal Restore Tool. You need this media to restore from your backup and apply Universal Restore afterwards to make your old system bootable on new hardware.
- Connect Acronis Bootable Media to your computer and restart the computer. Restore your system.
- After recovery, start your new computer once again and use Universal Restore to make the restored system bootable on the new hardware.
- Now you can start the computer and work with your system restored to the new hardware.
Validation is an operation that checks backup integrity and thus the possibility of data recovery from a backup.
You can validate your Entire PC or system disk backup in two ways:
- Using Acronis True Image in Windows: click the angle symbol near the backup you want to validate, and then click Validate all versions:
- Using bootable media:
- go to Recovery tab;
- If your backup is not in the list, click Browse for backup, navigate to backup location and add the backup to the list
- right-click the backup, and then click Validate Archive.
Acronis Universal Restore is a tool that allows changing Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL.dll) and install mass storage boot device drivers into the system.
It installs boot device drivers (e.g. hard drive or RAID controller drivers) into the system during the recovery process, so that the operating system can boot from this boot device. If there are proper NIC drivers present in the folder with the drivers, Acronis Universal Restore will copy them into the restored system and will schedule their installation on Windows boot-up.
(!) All the other drivers (e.g. video and sound card drivers, plug and play drivers) are not installed by Acronis Universal Restore, as they can be installed in Windows after the successful migration.
Before applying Universal Restore to a Windows operating system, make sure that you have the drivers for the new HDD controller and the chipset. These drivers are critical to start the operating system. Use the CD or DVD supplied by the hardware vendor or download the drivers from the vendor’s Web site. The driver files should have the *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extensions. If you download the drivers in the *.exe, *.cab or *.zip format, extract them using a third-party application (e.g. free 7-zip tool or any other).
Once you have the necessary drivers on hand, you need to place them to a location Acronis bootable media can access, for example:
- add them to the bootable media while creating it in the bootable media builder as described in step 3
- place them on a USB stick or an external drive and plug it in before applying Universal Restore as described in step 5
- place them on a network share that is accessible for computers in your network and point to this share before applying Universal Restore as described in step 5
What if you do not have drivers
Windows 7 and later versions include more drivers than the older Windows operating systems. There is a great chance that Universal Restore finds all necessary drivers in the Windows 7 driver folder. So, you may not necessarily have to specify the external path to the drivers. Nevertheless, performing Universal Restore is critical so the system uses the correct drivers.
The Windows default driver storage folder is determined in the registry value DevicePath, which can be found in the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion
This storage folder is usually WINDOWS/inf.
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Note for Windows XP users
Microsoft has stopped Windows XP support on April 8, 2014, more and more hardware manufacturers discontinue testing their harware for compatibility with Windows XP, thus you may experience issues when/after restoring a Windows XP system to new hardware. Please consult your hardware manufacturer to make sure the new hardware is compatible with Windows XP.
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Acronis True Image 2021 Troubleshooting
- In Acronis True Image, navigate to Tools, and then select Acronis Universal Restore.
- Click Download to download Acronis Universal Restore Media Builder in .msi format.
- Install the downloaded file.
- Start Acronis True Image, navigate to Tools, and then select Acronis Universal Restore again.
- Acronis Universal Restore Media Builder starts. Click Next.
- Select the way the disks and volume will be represented. Windows-like representation is selected by default, you can leave it as is unless you specifically want to have Linux-like representation.
- Optionally, specify Linux kernel parameters. See Linux Kernel Parameters.
- Select bothTrue ImageandAcronis Universal Restore.
- Optionally, specify startup parameters.
- Select a destination for the media: CD/DVD, USB flash drive, ISO image.
- Specify the mass storage drivers to be used by Acronis Universal Restore.
You do not have to add the drivers now. You can do this later when you apply Acronis Universal Restore to a machine.
- Click Proceed to create the media.
- Boot the machine once again with Acronis Bootable Media:
- Select the Acronis Universal Restore option.
- Add a folder with the drivers under Automatic drive search:
- Click OK.