Backing up to Acronis Cloud

  1. Open Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office.

  2. Perform one of the following:

    • If this is your first backup, skip this step.

    • If you already have a backup and you want to create a new one, click the plus sign at the bottom of the backup list.

      To delete a backup, right-click it, and then click Delete. The backup will be removed from the list and the backup files will be permanently deleted from the backup storage. These files cannot be ever recovered.

  3. Click the backup source icon, and then select what you want to back up:

    • Entire Mac

      When you select this option, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office backs up all your internal hard drives in disk mode. The backup contains the operating system, installed programs, system settings, and all your personal data including your photos, music, and documents.

    • Disks
    • Files and folders

    • Mobile device

      Refer to Backing up mobile devices for details.

    • Cloud service

      Used to back up Office 365 data.

    • Files to notarize

      Refer to Notarized backup for details.

    • NAS device (if any connected)

  4. Click the backup destination icon, select Acronis Cloud, and then click OK.

    If you are not signed in yet, enter the email address and password of your Acronis account, and then click Sign In.

    If you do not have an Acronis account, click Create Account, type your email address, password, and then click the Create Account button. Refer to Creating an Acronis account for details.

  5. [Optional step] Configure additional settings. You can:

    • Exclude data protected with third-party services, if you use any. Click Optimize backup and specify the data to exclude. Refer to Excluding items from backups for details.
    • Exclude files and folders manually at Settings —> Exclusions. Refer to Excluding items from backups for details.
    • Configure the backup schedule at Settings —> Schedule. Refer to Scheduling for details.
    • Set the backup retention rules at Settings —> Cleanup. Refer to Cleaning up backups, backup versions, and replicas for details.
    • Protect your backup with a password and encryption at Settings —> Encryption. Refer to Backup encryption for details.
    • Select a preferred data center and configure the upload speed at Settings —> Network. Refer to Network settings for backup for details.
    • Configure the backups attempts at Settings —> Error Handling.

  6. After you have configured all settings and you are ready to start a backup, click Back Up.

    The first online backup may take a considerable amount of time to complete. Future backup processes will likely be much faster, because only changes to files will be transferred.

To recover your Mac from a Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office backup, you must have Acronis bootable media. If you do not have one, create it. Refer to Creating Acronis bootable media for details.