What you can and cannot back up

The table below shows what and where you can back up.

Backup destinations

Internal drives (HDD, SSD, RAID)

Acronis Cloud

USB drives

Thunderbolt

AirPort Time Capsule

Network share, NAS

CD, DVD

FTP server

Internal drives (HDD, SSD)

+

+

+

+

+

+

-

-

USB drives

+

+

+

+

+

+

-

-

FireWire drives

+

+

+

+

+

+

-

-

Thunderbolt

+

+

+

+

+

+

-

-

Fusion drives

+

+

+

+

+

+

-

-

Hard drives protected with FileVault 2

+

+

+

+

+

+

-

-

Hard drives with Boot Camp installed

+

+

+

+

+

+

-

-

Specific files

+

+

+

+

+

+

-

-

Separate partitions

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

RAID, Apple RAID

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

CD, DVD

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

APM disks

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-