Scheduled backups take place in the background and Get Backup Pro shuts itself down once it’s finished. Backups can be compressed to save space and you can choose whether to back up to a disk image or on a per file basis. You use it to create bootable clones of your Mac’s startup drive, and to synchronise files and folders on different drives. It can back up your entire hard drive or only the folders you specify. Get Backup Pro’s main attraction is its flexibility.
However, it’s comprehensive, easy to use and well-worth considering. It’s not cheap, and the removal of the one-off payment option makes it more expensive to get started. Additional storage costs around £30/$30/year/TB.Īcronis Cyber Protect Home Office combines the best of local and online backup tools and offers lots of other features, such as protection from malware and other online threats. If you want to use Acronis Cloud, you’ll pay a yearly subscription ranging from £62.99/$89.99 for one computer and 500 GB of cloud storage to £149.99/$209.99 for five computers and 1TB storage. Pricing starts at £34.99/$49.99 per year per computer, but that doesn’t include cloud storage. From here, you can also back up external disks, a mobile device to your Mac, or your social media accounts to Acronis Cloud.Ĭlick on the settings icon and you can schedule regular backups, exclude files, encrypt backups or delete old backups. If you don’t want to create an image of your entire Mac, click on the source box to choose files and folders to back up. Click the Destination button to choose whether to back up to Acronis Cloud, a local drive or a NAS box. The first time you open it, your Mac is selected as the source. Its interface is about as straightforward and friendly as they come. It also allows you to create what it calls a Survival Kit – a bootable disk with all your system, or a partition, and file backup.Ĭyber Protect Home Office is very straightforward to use. In addition to the security features, Cyber Protect Home Office now allows you to backup Office 365 files to Acronis Cloud, clone your startup disk (either a bootable clone or a compressed image), and synchronise files locally or with cloud storage. It will scan existing data for malware, monitor files you interact with online, detect ransomware and cryptojacking attacks, and perform assessments of the vulnerability of your data to being compromised. If backing up files is one part of the data protection equation, then the other is protecting those files, wherever they reside, from cyber-attack, and that’s what Cyber Protect Home Office is designed to do. The main reason for the name change from True Image, which was chosen to show that the backup tool creates a ‘true image’ of the disk it’s backing up, is that it now goes beyond just backing up your disk. You’ll need to set up an account with Acronis to use its, but you can give Cyber Protect Home Office a spin without signing up for its paid-for service or even providing payment details, by using the free trial to back up to a local drive or network disk. The latter makes it good option for anyone with a NAS that doesn’t support Apple’s Time Machine. It supports backing up your data to a local disk, Acronis’ own cloud-based service, or a network-attached storage device. Our reviews of tools here that create bootable clones should be read in that context.Īcronis is a name well known in the Windows world, but less so to Mac users.Ĭyber Protect Home Office is the new name for Acronis True Image and is its personal backup solution. There is no single solution to the problem, currently.
As one developer told us, “it’s a bit hit and miss”. The net result is that, depending on which version of macOS you’re running and whether you have an Intel or Apple silicon Mac, bootable clones don’t always work. That means that the old way of creating bootable clones no longer works and developers have had to find ways to work with and around Apple’s new way of doing things. Copies of the Signed System Volume are not bootable without a cryptographic seal applied by Apple. One example of this is the introduction of the Signed System Volume in Big Sur.
One of the consequences of those changes is that is harder for third-party applications that need deep access to the system to work. However, over the last few versions of macOS Apple has been making changes to make it more secure. Some apps are focused on creating clones of your hard drive and offer incremental backup as an extra feature. Apple’s own Time Machine, which is included with macOS, is an example of this kind of solution. Many options are focused solely on making backing up your Mac regularly as easy as as possible.
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