Supported storage media

• Hard disk drives*
• Networked storage devices
• FTP servers**
• CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double-layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R, BD-RE***
• USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0, FireWire (IEEE-1394) and PC card storage devices
• REV® and other removable media

* Acronis True Image Home 2012 does not support the following dynamic volume types: Mirrored and RAID-5. There are some additional limitations on operations with dynamic and GPT disks:

• To perform operations with dynamic disks, you need separately purchased Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack
• Creation of Acronis Secure Zone on dynamic disks is not supported
• Recovery of a dynamic volume as a dynamic volume with manual resizing is not supported
• Try&Decide® cannot be used for protecting dynamic and GPT disks
• "Clone disk" operation is not supported for dynamic disks

Acronis True Image Home 2012 supports large hard disk drives with a capacity of more than 2TB. This support is provided even if the operating system does not have support for such hardware. For more information see Acronis Extended Capacity Manager.

** An FTP server must allow passive mode file transfers. For data to be recovered directly from an FTP server, the backup must consist of files no greater than 2GB each.

The firewall settings of the source computer should have Ports 20 and 21 opened for the TPC and UDP protocols to function. The Routing and Remote Access Windows service should be disabled.

*** Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without a kernel patch.