Backing up the entire machine is the most complete way to protect your data. We recommend that you choose this option when you are not sure which data that you need to protect. When you select Entire PC as a backup type, Acronis True Image 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.

Acronis True Image 2020: how to back up entire computer

Windows

Mac

Backing up the entire machine is the most complete way to protect your data. We recommend that you choose this option when you are not sure which data you need to protect. When you select Entire PC/Entire Mac as a backup type, Acronis True Image 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.

Acronis Backup Advanced 11.7/11.5: Acronis Management Server Configuration for Large Environments

Recommendations in this article target deployment of Acronis Backup in environments of 200 to 1000 machines.

(!) If your environment is 1000+ machines, please contact Acronis Customer Central with a reference to this article. Acronis Professionals will analyze your environment and provide you with ad hoc recommendations.

Acronis software creates a temporary file during snapshot

If there is not enough storage space to create the temporary snapshot file, the backup operation will fail with an error message similar to the following one:

Not enough storage is available to process this command

This article describes what this temporary file is and how to modify its size. For detailed description of the snapshot process, see SnapAPI.

Acronis Backup 12.5: Changed Block Tracking (CBT) does not work for Hyper-V 2016+ virtual machines with configuration version 5

Symptoms

When backing up a Hyper-V Virtual Machine running on Windows Hyper-V Server 2016 (Windows 10) or higher AND this Virtual Machine is running on outdated VM configuration version 5.0, then Changed Block Tracking information for this virtual machine cannot be retrieved and entire virtual disks are processed during backup.

Example of backup log where the problem is observed – both virtual disks are read from start to end instead of reading only changed sectors reported by CBT:

Acronis Cyber Files: Using the Configuration Collection Tool

Acronis Cyber Files (formerly Access Advanced) 6.1 and later has a command line tool which collects information about your configuration. This tool provides an easy way to give our support team all the necessary information about your setup in case you are experiencing issues. When running the tool on a machine with a single Gateway Server or a single Files Advanced Server installed, only the information about the installed component will be collected.