Bootcamp

Description

Acronis Disk Director (any version and edition) is not supported on Mac computers.

This includes:

  1. Installing and using Acronis Disk Director on macOS (any version)
  2. Installing and using Acronis Disk Director on BootCamp Windows
  3. Installing and using Acronis Disk Director on Parallels Windows or any other virtual machine on Mac computer
  4. Running Acronis Disk Director from a bootable media on Mac and any virtual machine on it

Symptoms

You start a backup of a disk or of the entire Mac, but if fails with the following errors:

  • CreateSnapshot function failed
  • Failed to create volume snapshot

Cause

By default Boot Camp partition is mounted in read-only mode. If Boot Camp partition is mounted in read-write mode by a third-party tool, Acronis software cannot lock this partition for backup.

Solution

As a workaround, mount the Boot Camp partition in read-only mode before running the backup.