Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office

I like this tool- for me better than TimeMachine. Very fast Backup and recover on my NAS. Many times faster than TM! But Arconis You have to do a better job - the software ist really buggy: 1. eMail-Notification doesn´t work 2. Schedule doesn´t work, after the backup-time if the mbp sleeps on it 3. the actual backup has problems saving the volume ... backup works, but after efi-mountingpoint is shown and desktop is read only It seems, that mac-user are not in focus :-(

Works fine

I used ATI for Windows for years and while it was a pain to admin and always had a bug or three, it was pretty configurable and did a good job, if you put in effort. This is not the same ATI. It has almost no configuration options, no custom scheduling of backup sets and consolidation rules, no notifications.

But the big feature that interested me is it claims to be able to do snapshot-consistent backups of Parallels Desktop v.11 images. In fact, Parallels also advertises this and even has a button from within PD to launch ATI. However, THIS DOES NOT WORK -- ATI 2016 cannot create PD11 snapshots. Acronis support acknowledges this problem and claims it will be fixed in a future update (while Parallels confirms it's an ATI problem), but both ATI 2016 and PD11 have been out for months now, no ETA on any such fix.

Acronis' suggested workaround? Downgrade to PD10. Hahaha, downgrade one of the main apps I use all day long to work around a bug in backup software? No. Since PD backup is the only unique feature and the only reason I can see to choose ATI for Mac, I'm not. If they ever fix this showstopper bug, I'll definitely be happy to try it again.

If you ever thought that Time Machine was slow, wait (and waiting is the one thing you will be doing the most) to use Acronis. It's simply the most painfully slow backup software I've ever had the displeasure to use. More than 26 hours later, backing up to my USB 3.0 external HD, it managed only to finish 34% of the task. And this after having interrupted itself for 3 times. Absolutely ridiculous! Do yourself a favor, and get Super Duper! You can't go wrong with it.