Acronis True Image for Mac User Guide

USER'S GUIDE

Table of contents

1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................3

1.1 What is Acronis® True Image™ 2015? ........................................................................................ 3

1.2 New in this version .................................................................................................................... 3

1.3 System requirements ................................................................................................................. 4

1.4 Install, update or remove Acronis True Image 2015 ................................................................. 4

1.5 Trial version information ........................................................................................................... 5

1.6 Acronis Customer Experience Program ..................................................................................... 6

1.7 Technical Support ...................................................................................................................... 6

2 Backup ............................................................................................................................7

2.1 Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................ 7

2.2 What you can and cannot back up ............................................................................................ 8

2.3 Backing up to local or network storage ..................................................................................... 8

2.4 Backing up to Acronis Cloud ...................................................................................................... 9

2.5 Scheduling ................................................................................................................................11

2.6 Excluding items from backups .................................................................................................11

2.7 Selecting Acronis Cloud data center ........................................................................................12

2.8 What is Acronis Cloud? ............................................................................................................12

2.8.1 Creating an Acronis account ......................................................................................................................... 12

2.8.2 Subscription to Acronis Cloud ...................................................................................................................... 13

3 Creating bootable rescue media ..................................................................................... 13

4 Recovery ....................................................................................................................... 14

4.1 When do I recover my Mac? ....................................................................................................14

4.2 Recovering your Mac ...............................................................................................................15

4.3 Recovering files from local backups ........................................................................................16

4.4 Recovering files from Acronis Cloud ........................................................................................17

1 Introduction

In this section

What is Acronis® True Image™ 2015? ....................................................... 3

New in this version ..................................................................................... 3

System requirements ................................................................................. 4

Install, update or remove Acronis True Image 2015.................................. 4

Trial version information ............................................................................ 5

Acronis Customer Experience Program ..................................................... 6

Technical Support ...................................................................................... 6

1.1 What is Acronis

Acronis True Image 2015 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. 8) and Backing up to Acronis Cloud (p. 9) 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. 13) 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:

True Image™ 2015?

 Backup of selected disks or entire Mac contents to local or network storage (p. 8) or to Acronis

Cloud (p. 9)

 Creating bootable rescue media (p. 13)  Mac OS X recovery in the bootable media environment (p. 15)  Recovery of specific files and folders under Mac OS X (p. 16)

1.2 New in this version

 Backup exclusion settings—Before you start a backup, you can reduce the backup size by

excluding data that does not need to be backed up. Acronis True Image 2015 now allows you to exclude your local data that is uploaded or synchronized with third-party Cloud services, such as iCloud Drive or Dropbox. This data is already reliably protected and can be easily downloaded to your computer. Therefore you can exclude it to reduce the backup size and to speed up the backup process.

 Improved user interface—Product usability was improved, based on customer feedback.

1.3 System requirements

Supported operating systems:

 OS X Mountain Lion 10.8  OS X Mavericks 10.9  OS X Yosemite 10.10

Supported file systems:

 Mac OS Extended format (case-insensitive)  FAT32  exFAT  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.

Requirements for Acronis bootable media:

 To create a bootable media, you can use any removable drive with 4 GB (or more) of free space.  CD and DVD media are not supported.

Supported storage media:

Refer to What you can and cannot back up (p. 8) for details.

1.4 Install, update or remove Acronis True Image 2015

Installation

To install Acronis True Image 2015:

1. Download the Acronis True Image 2015 setup file from the Acronis website:

 To purchase the full version, go to:

www.acronis.com/redirector/products/timac2014/getfullversion/.

 To try the free trial version, go to:

www.acronis.com/redirector/products/timac2014/getfreetrial/.

2. Read and accept the terms of the license agreement and the Acronis Customer Experience

Program.

3. Double-click the Acronis True Image 2015 setup file (the file has a .dmg extension).

4. Drag the Acronis True Image 2015 icon to the Applications folder.

When you start Acronis True Image 2015 for the first time, you must enter the serial number or start the trial version of the product.

Update

Acronis True Image 2015 notifies you automatically when an update is available from the Acronis website. You can download it, and then install it over your version of Acronis True Image 2015. All your backups and settings will be kept.

Uninstallation

To remove Acronis True Image 2015 from your Mac:

1. Open the Finder, and then click Applications.

2. Find Acronis True Image 2015 in the list, and then drag it to the Trash.

1.5 Trial version information

If you want first to try and evaluate Acronis True Image 2015, you can install the free, 30-day trial version of the product. The trial version is fully functional. After the trial period, the program functionality is blocked and you will need to upgrade to the full version if you wish to continue using Acronis True Image 2015.

After the trial period expires, your backups are not deleted and can be used for recovery in the full version of Acronis True Image 2015.

Acronis Cloud

You have unlimited storage space during the trial period. You can use this space to store your online backups. After the trial period is over, Acronis Cloud works in recovery-only mode for 30 days. After this period, you won't be able to use the Acronis Cloud service and all your data will be deleted.

You can upgrade your trial subscription at the Acronis website: https://www.acronis.com/my/online-backup/.

Installing the trial version

To start using the trial version, install the product, and then click Start Trial. Refer to Install, update or remove Acronis True Image 2015 (p. 4) for details.

Upgrading to the full version

To upgrade to the full version of the product:

1. Purchase the full version at the Acronis website:

www.acronis.com/redirector/products/timac2014/getfullversion/.

2. Open Acronis True Image 2015.

3. On the menu bar, click Acronis True Image 2015, and then click Enter Serial Number.

4. Insert the full serial number in the appropriate box, and then click Proceed.

1.6 Acronis Customer Experience Program

Acronis Customer Experience Program (CEP) is a new way to allow Acronis customers to contribute to the features, design and development of Acronis products. This program enables our customers to provide us with various information, including information about the hardware configuration of your host computer and/or virtual machines, the features you use most (and least), and the nature of the problems you face. Based on this information, we will be able to improve the Acronis products and the features you use most often.

To make a decision:

1. In the Acronis True Image menu, click About Acronis True Image.

2. To leave the program, clear the Participate in the Acronis Customer Experience Program check

box.

If you choose to participate, the technical information will be automatically collected every week. We will not collect any personal data, like your name, address, phone number, or keyboard input. Participation in the CEP is voluntary, however, but the end results intended to provide software improvements and enhanced functionality to better meet the needs of our customers.

1.7 Technical Support

Maintenance and Support Program

If you need assistance with your Acronis product, please go to http://www.acronis.com/support/

Product Updates

You can download the latest updates for all your registered Acronis software products from our website at any time after logging into your Account (http://www.acronis.com/my) and registering the product. See Registering Acronis Products at the Website (http://kb.acronis.com/content/4834) and Acronis Website User Guide (http://kb.acronis.com/content/8128).

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