1538: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, Acronis True Image: Supported File Systems

Last update: 30-09-2021

File systems supported by Acronis True Image in Windows and Mac environments

Description

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office(formerly Acronis True Image) supports the following file systems in Windows and in Acronis Bootable Rescue media environment:

  • NTFS
  • Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 
  • ReiserFS (3)*

    Note: ReiserFS partitions and disks cannot be backed up to Acronis Cloud.

  • Linux SWAP *
  • FAT16/32
  • exFAT **
    Note: WinRE/WinPE-based bootable media is required to recover system backups, stored on an exFAT-formatted disk. exFAT is supported only for disk or partition recovery operations (without resizing).
    It is not possible to browse and restore individual files and folders selectively from a backup of exFAT disk volume. exFAT partitions are shown as empty, when trying to browse and recover individual files. It is possible to restore all files at once in disk/partition recovery mode.
  • HFS+**/HFSX**

* File systems are supported only for disk or partition backup/recovery operations. You cannot use Acronis True Image 2021 for file-level operations with these file systems (file backup, recovery, search, as well as image mounting and file recovering from images). 

** Disk recovery, partition recovery, and cloning operations are supported without resizing.

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (formerly Acronis True Image) supports the following file systems on macOS:

  • Apple File System (APFS)
  • HFS+ (including Core Storage)
  • FAT32
  • NTFS (including Boot Camp)*

* You cannot back up data to a disk with an NTFS file system. However, you can recover data from a backup located on this type of file system.

If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis True Image can copy data using a sector-by-sector approach.

If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis True Image can copy data using a sector-by-sector approach.

Click on the collapsible fields below to see supported file systems for earlier versions of Acronis True Image

 

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