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ATI 2017 ReFS support

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Hi,

Can someone confirm whether ATI 2017 supports ReFS volumes in any way.

Many thanks,

Sean

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Can someone confirm whether ATI 2017 supports ReFS volumes in any way.

Sean, see the ATIH 2017 User Guide which states:

Supported file systems

  • FAT16/32
  • NTFS
  • Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 *
  • ReiserFS *

    Note: ReiserFS partitions and disks cannot be backed up to Acronis Cloud.

  • Linux SWAP *

* The Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP file systems are supported only for disk or partition backup/recovery operations. You cannot use Acronis True Image 2017 for file-level operations with these file systems (file backup, recovery, search, as well as image mounting and file recovering from images). You also cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with these file systems.

If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis True Image 2017 can copy data using a sector-by-sector approach.

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Hi,

No mention is made of ReFS and yet ATI 2017 does allow file and disk level backups to process. Does this mean that ReFS is supported or that I may experience issues?

I'm using  Windows 10 Pro system with two SSDs configured as a Storage Space (no resilience).

Many thanks,

Sean

Sean, my understanding is that ReFS is not supported unless you go the sector-by-sector route but you would need to verify this directly with Acronis by opening a Support Case.

ATIH is primarily targeted at Home users where the majority probably have no idea what a Storage Space is or that they can consider whether to use it, so I guess that this doesn't have a high priority with the product developers.  I have not seen any indication in the latest ATIH 2018 product that this has changed either.

The ATIH 2018 User Guide essentially repeats what was stated for 2017..

Supported file systems

  • FAT16/32
  • NTFS
  • Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 *
  • ReiserFS *

    Note: ReiserFS partitions and disks cannot be backed up to Acronis Cloud.

  • Linux SWAP *

* The Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP file systems are supported only for disk or partition backup/recovery operations. You cannot use Acronis True Image 2018 for file-level operations with these file systems (file backup, recovery, search, as well as image mounting and file recovering from images). You also cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with these file systems.

If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis True Image 2018 can copy data using a sector-by-sector approach.

For what it's worth, I just checked a handful of common competitor spec sheets.  No mention of REFS support on any of those either.  Yeah, people are starting to use it, but it's still not really "common" in home environments - or Server environments due to backup challenges (incrementals run like fulls because it can't tell where the changed data resides).

Indeed it is - thanks for the article.  

Looks like another technology released too soon for its own good, only to be deprecated in an existing platform and "sold" as a feature in a new one to come. I won't be jumping the bandwagon from NTFS any time soon.  Perhaps in a few years if/when it becomes mainstream and supports booting, but I'm getting a little concerned with MS take on these Windows 10 variants (Windows 10 Pro Workstation, Windows 10 S, huh? - just stick with one OS to support and make it good.  I really like Windows 10, but am getting nervous with MS weird thought process on making it different from itself for other forms of revenue.