Acronis True Image for Mac - User Guide - Manual (Page 3)

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1 Introduction
In this section
What is Acronis® True Image™? ................................................................ 3
System requirements ................................................................................. 3
Install, update or remove True Image........................................................ 4
Trial version information ............................................................................ 5
Technical Support ...................................................................................... 5
1.1 What is Acronis ® True Image™?
Acronis True Image is an application that protects all information on your Mac, including the
operating system, applications, settings, and all of your data. To protect your Mac, you need to
perform two easy operations:
1. Create a complete backup of your Mac.
This saves your operating system files and all your data to a file called backup. You can store this
file in local or network storage or upload it on Acronis Cloud. Refer to “Backing up to local or
network storage” (p. 7) and “Backing up to Acronis Cloud” (p. 8) for details.
2. Create Acronis bootable media.
This is a removable drive containing boot files. When your Mac cannot start up, this media allows
you to start an Acronis recovery environment and use your backup to rollback your Mac to a
healthy state. Refer to “Creating bootable rescue media” (p. 11) for details.
After performing these two steps, you can be sure that you will be able to repair your Mac OS X and
recover your lost documents in a few minutes.
Key features:
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Backup of selected disks or entire Mac contents to local or network storage (p. 7) or to Acronis
Cloud (p. 8)
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Creating bootable rescue media (p. 11)
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Mac OS X recovery in the bootable media environment (p. 12)
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Recovery of specific files and folders under Mac OS X (p. 13)
1.2 System requirements
Supported operating systems:
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OS X Mountain Lion 10.8
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OS X Mavericks 10.9
Supported file systems:
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Mac OS Extended format (case-insensitive)
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FAT32
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exFAT
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NTFS (read-only)
You cannot back up data to a disk with an NTFS file system. However, you can recover data from a backup
located on this type of file system.