The software can perform full, differential and incremental backups. Acronis has an agent that can be installed within the operating system, which allows backups to be performed in the background while the computer is being used.Īcronis can back up a computer, selected disks or selected files to a local location specified by the user. Acronis falls back to using sector-by-sector copy when a non-supported filesystem is backed up. The software can create full disk backup archives of several file systems including: NTFS (Windows) FAT32 (Windows 9x and removable media) Macintoish systems ( HFS+ and APFS) and Linux systems ( ext2, ext3, ext4 ReiserFS, and Linux Swap). 2.1 Possible incompatibility between versionsĪcronis can create two types of backup archives: (1) file backups (which consist of user-specified files and directories (but not the metadata of the disk or partition)) and (2) full system images (which consist of files, directories and disk metadata).1.1.2 Cloud backup (subscription users only).The software is used by technicians to deploy operating systems to computers and by academics to help restore computers following analysis of how viruses infect computers. Since 2020, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office includes malware and Zoom protection (though the ability to use such features depends on the subscription purchased). Windows 11 (Acronis True Image 2021 and earlier not supported) Įnglish, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Indonesian, Portuguese, DutchĪcronis Cyber Protect Home Office (previously known as Acronis True Image) is a software package produced by Acronis International GmbH that aims to protect the system from ransomware and allows users to backup and restore files or entire systems from a backup archive, which was previously created using the software.

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