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Asterger, sorry but this is just a user forum, you will need to open a Support Case with Acronis Support to see if they can answer your question for you.

Assume you MVP guys have the inside track, besides I've seen Acronis employees frequently post here.

I can ping IPv6 to my NAS, would be great to use Acronis to backup via IPv6.  I'm hoping IPv6 is on someone's agenda at Acronis.  If a competitor could do it as fast, and with a backup as small as *.TLB, Acronis' days in my computing environment could be numbered.

Cheers,

-- Asterger

Hello Asterger,

Thank you for your interest.

Advantages of using IPv6 in home environment for our purposes are currently considered negligible compared to the amount of efforts required for supporting it in the product. There are many other areas/features to work on, that will be much more beneficial for the users compared to supporting IPv6 in addition to IPv4.

Regards,

Slava

Hello Slava,

Thank you for ryour reply.

Many networking products, are now IPv6 ready or are working to that end.  Whichever backup/recovery product achives dual-stack support *first* will have a considerable edge over the competition.  

Acronis the "writing is on the wall", dual-stack backup/recovery solutions are coming.  You need some develpment to that end.  IPv6 is in your Business Solutions, why hold back on your retail products? 

I'd like it to be Acronis that leads the way to dual-stack capability.  However, I'm not "wedded" to a single solution, I'll follow new technology and implement dual-stack where/when and by whichever vendor delivers it. 

Cheers,

-- Asterger

 

asterger wrote:

Hello Slava,

Thank you for ryour reply.

Many networking products, are now IPv6 ready or are working to that end.  Whichever backup/recovery product achives dual-stack support *first* will have a considerable edge over the competition.  

Acronis the "writing is on the wall", dual-stack backup/recovery solutions are coming.  You need some develpment to that end.  IPv6 is in your Business Solutions, why hold back on your retail products? 

I'd like it to be Acronis that leads the way to dual-stack capability.  However, I'm not "wedded" to a single solution, I'll follow new technology and implement dual-stack where/when and by whichever vendor delivers it. 

Cheers,

-- Asterger

If IPV6 is a major desire for your enviornment, and another home backup product offers it, I'd say go for it.  I wouldn't rate IPV4 vs IPV6 as a high priority on most people's lists for backup needs, in lieu of functionality, usability and reliability though.  

I'd suspect because it will not impact home users as much and it is a home product with home pricing and home features.  Internal home networks with a handful of devices (lets say 20 or less) will not suffer for using IPV4 as there is plenty of internal addressing to go around and IPV6 is primarily to provide more IP's for public address space as we've reached the 4billion saturation point.  There also aren't many home users that have 10GBps+ internal networks either - businesses, sure, but that's why Acronis also has a business product line so you're not going to see much of a need for any speed performance with IPV6 in an internal home network either..  

It's not uncommon for there to be home/business or basic/advanced product versions with different features or capabilities.  The additional functionality and support comes at at a back-end cost that most home users wouldn't take advantage of the feature of and subsequently wouldnt' be willing to pay more for the product to have features.  It really boils down to the 80/20 rule and your're in the 20 side here - probably close to the 5 side for a home user.  Ultimately, how will not having IPV6 functionality in Acronis, really impact the functionality of the backup/recovery process with Acronis - in real world metrics. Is your home network close to reaching 4billion nodes?