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

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

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

See also

System requirements

Basic concepts

Backing up to local or network storage

Backing up to Acronis Cloud

Scheduling