Supported storage media
- Hard disk drives (HDD)
- Solid-state drives (SSD, including NVMe)
- FTP servers
The FTP server must allow passive mode file transfers. Acronis True Image splits a backup into files with a size of 2GB when backing up directly to an FTP server. Working with .tibx backups over FTP is not supported.
- CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double-layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R, BD-RE
- USB, eSATA, FireWire (IEEE-1394), SCSI, and Memory cards
Acronis True Image supports USB interfaces of all versions (1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2), as well as USB-C and Thunderbolt storage devices. Actual performance depends on the system configuration, controller, and connection quality.
Limitations on operations with dynamic disks
- 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 disks.
- Disk cloning operation is not supported for dynamic disks.
The firewall settings of the source computer should have Ports 20 and 21 opened for the TCP and UDP protocols to function. The Routing and Remote Access Windows service should be disabled.