Build41126March 6, 2024

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office for Windows

What's new

  • Introducing a groundbreaking technology featuring local caching, significantly accelerating incremental Cloud backups with an average 20% improvement compared to previous product versions.
  • Bug fixes and other improvements.

For more information about security updates, see List of fixed security vulnerabilities of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office.

Known bugs and limitations

System requirements

Hardware requirements

  • Intel CORE 2 Duo (2 GHz) or equivalent processor that supports SSE instructions.

Operating systems

  • Windows 11
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7 SP1 (all editions)
  • Windows Home Server 2011

Beta builds are not supported.

Windows Embedded, IoT editions, Windows 10 LTSB, and Windows 10 LTSC are not supported.

It is possible for the software to work on other Windows operating systems, but it is not guaranteed.

File systems

  • NTFS
  • Ext2/Ext3/Ext4
  • ReiserFS(3). File systems are supported only for backup and recovery of disks or partitions.
  • Linux SWAP. File systems are supported only for backup and recovery of disks or partitions.
  • HFS+/HFSX. Disk recovery, partition recovery, and cloning operations are supported without resizing.
  • FAT16/32/exFAT. Disk recovery, partition recovery, and cloning operations are supported without resizing.

If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office can copy data by using a sector-by-sector approach.

Storage media

  • Hard disk drives (HDD)
  • Solid-state drives (SSD)
  • Networked storage devices
  • FTP servers. The FTP server must allow file transfers in the passive mode. Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office splits a backup into files with a size of 2 GB when backing up directly to an FTP server.
  • CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double-layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R, BD-RE
  • USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0, USB-C, eSATA, FireWire (IEEE-1394), SCSI, and PC card storage devices

Limitations on operations with dynamic disks

  • Creation of Acronis Secure Zone on dynamic disks is not supported.
  • Recovery of a dynamic volume as a dynamic volume with manual resizing is not supported.
  • The Try&Decide tool cannot be used for protecting dynamic disks.
  • The "Clone disk" operation is not supported for dynamic disks.
Build41121March 6, 2024

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office for macOS

What's new

  • Introducing a groundbreaking technology featuring local caching, significantly accelerating incremental Cloud backups with an average 20% improvement compared to previous product versions.
  • Bug fixes and other improvements.

For more information about security updates, see List of fixed security vulnerabilities of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office.

Known bugs and limitations

System requirements

Operating systems

  • macOS Sonoma 14
  • macOS Ventura 13
  • macOS Monterey 12
  • macOS Big Sur 11
  • macOS Catalina 10.15

File systems

  • APFS
  • HFS+
  • Core Storage
  • FAT32
  • NTFS (including Boot Camp). You cannot back up data to a disk with an NTFS file system. However, you can recover data from a backup located on this type of file system.

Supported storage media

  • Internal drives (HDD, SSD)
  • SoftRAID® (supported for backup and recovery of files and folders)

  • USB drives
  • FireWire drives
  • Thunderbolt drives
  • Network share, NAS
  • Acronis Cloud

Unsupported configurations

  • Apple RAID and other RAIDs (except those listed in Supported storage media)