Acronis True Image Now for Mac

Acronis International GmbH announced the availability of Acronis True Image for Mac, the system image backup solution offering dual protection for Mac computers.

This solution offer MacBook users protection when they travel away from their locally attached storage, and provides dual protection to all Mac users. With this product, the company brings its personal backup and recovery technology to the Mac environment and extends its data protection from Windows to OS X users.

Dual protection is a must-have protection which empowers users to backup and store their data both locally and in the cloud, offering them peace of mind that their digital life is protected and accessible anytime, anywhere. True Image provides a copy of the entire system, applications, user data and settings which are backed up locally and online, ensuring recovery in case of a system issue, malfunction or HDD failure.

Also exclusive to True Image for Mac is its ability to backup and restore a Parallels Desktop VM in its active state, ensuring that users can recover their whole system exactly as it was with all Windows applications, documents and settings restored.

“The new Acronis True Image for Mac brings a new level of support and data protection to Parallels Desktop 9 users who are running Windows environments on Macs,” said Birger Steen, CEO, Parallels, Inc.

“With so many households using Mac OSs, we’ve been working towards providing our Windows PC market-leading solution to Apple Mac users offering them the same level of complete protection for their digital lives at home and in the Acronis cloud. We are tremendously excited to announce this offering today“, said Nat Maple, SVP and GM, global consumer business, Acronis. “With Acronis True Image for Mac, we’ve established Acronis as the de facto leading provider of full system image backups with dual protection for Apple Macs users.“

Acronis True Image for Mac Features:

• Full system image backup and recovery, both locally and to the cloud

• Recovery of a Mac image or just the specific files or folders you require

• Parallels Desktop support, backup and recover Parallels machines in their active state

• Smart backup scheduling including automatic backups

• Personal key encryption for improved privacy of data

• Recovery media creation

• Versioning and incremental backups

• A user interface designed for Mac OS X users

The software can be customised for each individual user’s needs, including allowing the user to decide where their data is stored, locally and/or to the cloud. It has the ability to backup Windows VMs running in Parallels Desktop, even when the VM is running, ensuring a backup of all data. It is designed for any Mac computer running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 or Mavericks 10.9.

It also detects time capsule as an optional storage destination and combines the benefits of both solutions.

With this product launch, the AnyData Engine provides data protection to Mac computers from any disaster by ensuring an automatic Mac restoration if needed.

Pricing:

• 1 license is available for an MSRP of $69.99 / €49,95.

• 3 licenses for an MSRP of $99.99 / €79,95.

• Cloud storage options start at $59.99/year or $5.99/month for 250GB.