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. 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. 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.Īcronis True Image is designed with simplicity in mind too: once installed, launch the app and click Free Trial. Its main selling points are its versatility and simplicity.

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.Īcronis is well known in the Windows sphere for its True Image drive-imaging tool, and this is its attempt to crack the Mac market.

There are two types of backup: file-based, and image-based.

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