Nonetheless, Acronis True Image cannot generate backup images for Macs that have Bootcamp installed, or use the Fusion Drive or File Vault 2 technologies. Note that Acronis True Image is able to work only with certain file systems: Mac OS Extended format (case-insensitive), FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS (read-only). However, finding your way around the application is extremely intuitive: simply specify the source and destination location for the backup, and the app takes care of the rest. Easy to install and setup backup solution featuring support for various file systems When you launch the app, you need to provide this trial key to be able to reach the app’s main window. To be able to try the Acronis True Image functionalities, you must register for a trial license on the developer’s website, free of charge (an email address is required).

Acronis True Image is a powerful yet user friendly backup solution that can store data locally, or upload the content to the Acronis cloud. follow method #2 (from step 19).Ī) How 250GB of data will be cloned on a 512GB volume space?ī) Is there as step during the cloning where we can decide to change the partition volume?Ĭ) in summary, can I use cloning to reach my goal?Ģ- If the cloning does not allow me to reach my goal, I guess I will have to do a Fresh re-installation following your method #1?ģ - Finally, could you please confirm that I can replace the HD with the SDD using the following instruction guide.Periodically backing up your data is extremely important since disks can fail, and documents can be deleted by mistake. Of note, I do have a time machine back-up but I guess it only concern the files under OS X Lion.ġ- In order not to reinstall everything, the quickiest way would be to clone the HD on the SDD, i.e. My plan is to change the HD with a Crucial M4 512GB SDD and eventually allocate 450GB to OS X Lion, and 112GB to Bootcamp. The current HD is partitioned with 210GB for the Mac OS X Lion, and 40GB for Bootcamp with Windows 7. First of all, sorry for my English but I'm not native!īackground: I just reached the capacity limit of my 250 GB HD intially bought with my MPB 15' (late 2008).

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