How to clone mac and bootcamp successfully with Acronis 2016
I have been using Acronis since its version having no year number in it.
But I ahve to say that 2015 for PC/Mac sucks big time. The recovering booting usb created by 2015 for Mac does not even work. Fortunately, I got 2016 3PC/Mac for free. I finally make it work to clone mac and bootcamp to a new ssd drive from seagate 2.5.
Here is the procedure.
1) format the backup external disk to mac format.
2) backup both mac and bootcamp together. make sure the total file size is matching mac plus bootcamp. Once a while, the 2016 just back up bootcamp for some unknown reasons.
3) create the external booting usb from 2016.
4) use disk utility from the recover usb to create corresponding mac and bootcamp partition accordingly.
5) then select both mac and bootcamp from back up. The successful rate is pretty high.
Step 4 is important. I did have situations with only mac, or just bootcamp created.
Since all the other clone tools charge lots of money now, this 2016 Acronis is working better and simpler than the winclone etc.
Good luck.

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