For your Mac restoration problems, you should contact Acronis support. Support for restoration is always free. You definitely should be able to restore your Mac partitions. Please let us know how it goes with Acronis support. I don't use Acronis for Mac (although I could) so I. Acronis True Image, the most reliable, easy-to-use and secure personal backup software and the only backup that actively defends your files against ransomware. Mac integration with a Microsoft Windows environment; Powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine and trusted by more than 500,000 businesses, all Acronis solutions are built on best-in-class, trusted technologies designed specifically to provide the best protection for Macs.
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. Free dmg. 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.
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I have an older Macbook in which the 250 GB drive is nearly full so I decided to replace it with a 500 GB drive and use the 250 GB drive in the optical bay with a caddy. For some reason I decided to use Acronis and backup the 250 GB drive and then restore it to the 500 GB drive by plugging the two drives serially into a hard drive bay on my Windows 10 PC. So now I have a backup file for the 250 GB Mac drive on an external hard drive, after which I unplugged the 250 GB drive and plugged in the 500 GB drive, and I hope to restore the 250 GB drive and its files to the 500 GB drive and make it bootable, and then put it in the conventional hard drive bay, and put the 250 GB drive in the optical drive bay. My Macbook is currently torn down. However, I can't understand the documented procedure for this process of restoring a mac drive OS to a dissimilar drive, especially the business about 'preparing the drivers.' That discussion seems to assume I'm restoring a Windows system to a dissimilar drive, which makes little sense to me. So I'm stuck with the 250 GB backup, and the 500 GB drive unformatted in the *Windows* drive bay, and my Macbook torn apart awaiting the reinstallation of both drives, but with the 500 GB drive in the conventional SSD place and the 250 GB drive in the optical bay. Best mac for the money. I know I should have used the Mac Superduper program to do this, but now I'm stuck using Acronis to do it. So what do I need to do or should I just give up and boot into the 250 GB drive after putting it in the optical bay and use the Mac's duplication program to dupe the old drive to the new drive and then reformat the old drive?
Scott, ideally you should be using the Acronis True Image for Mac application running on your Mac for this type of disk migration. When using the Windows version of ATI you have the issue of how your Mac drive is formatted and how ATI will handle that drive when doing any backup & restore operation.
See the ATIH 2018 for Windows User Guide: Supported File Systems pages for what this product supports and handles unsupported file systems.
See also the ATIH 2018 for Mac User Guide: System requirements / Supported file systems for key differences in this area.
An alternative, (in addition to your own alternative of using the Mac Superduper program) might be to invest in a hardware dual docking station with cloning capability, where this does not care about drive formatting but will duplicate the contents of one drive to a second drive.
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I have an older Macbook in which the 250 GB drive is nearly full so I decided to replace it with a 500 GB drive and use the 250 GB drive in the optical bay with a caddy. For some reason I decided to use Acronis and backup the 250 GB drive and then restore it to the 500 GB drive by plugging the two drives serially into a hard drive bay on my Windows 10 PC. So now I have a backup file for the 250 GB Mac drive on an external hard drive, after which I unplugged the 250 GB drive and plugged in the 500 GB drive, and I hope to restore the 250 GB drive and its files to the 500 GB drive and make it bootable, and then put it in the conventional hard drive bay, and put the 250 GB drive in the optical drive bay. My Macbook is currently torn down. However, I can't understand the documented procedure for this process of restoring a mac drive OS to a dissimilar drive, especially the business about 'preparing the drivers.' That discussion seems to assume I'm restoring a Windows system to a dissimilar drive, which makes little sense to me. So I'm stuck with the 250 GB backup, and the 500 GB drive unformatted in the *Windows* drive bay, and my Macbook torn apart awaiting the reinstallation of both drives, but with the 500 GB drive in the conventional SSD place and the 250 GB drive in the optical bay. Best mac for the money. I know I should have used the Mac Superduper program to do this, but now I'm stuck using Acronis to do it. So what do I need to do or should I just give up and boot into the 250 GB drive after putting it in the optical bay and use the Mac's duplication program to dupe the old drive to the new drive and then reformat the old drive?
Scott, ideally you should be using the Acronis True Image for Mac application running on your Mac for this type of disk migration. When using the Windows version of ATI you have the issue of how your Mac drive is formatted and how ATI will handle that drive when doing any backup & restore operation.
See the ATIH 2018 for Windows User Guide: Supported File Systems pages for what this product supports and handles unsupported file systems.
See also the ATIH 2018 for Mac User Guide: System requirements / Supported file systems for key differences in this area.
An alternative, (in addition to your own alternative of using the Mac Superduper program) might be to invest in a hardware dual docking station with cloning capability, where this does not care about drive formatting but will duplicate the contents of one drive to a second drive.
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If I install the 500GB drive in the SSD bay and the 250GB drive in the opitical bay will it automatically boot from the opitical bay rather than the SSD bay? I could then superdupe the 250GB bay to the 500GB drive and then, after a second boot to the new drive wipe the old drive and install Ubuntu as a dual boot system? Pyramid induction manual. Would that work?
Or do I have to physically swap the drives?
Scott, sorry but you need someone with Mac experience to answer your questions, the last Apple computer I had (& still have up in my loft) was an Apple II+ from the 1980's vintage!
There is a dedicated Acronis True Image for Mac Forum where you can try asking such questions of other Mac users.
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