No incremental backups for Mac Acronis? It's no better than rsync or Time Machine
I just upgraded my single PC license to a 3-PC license + Mac for Acronis TrueImage 2015, thinking (erroneously) that the products were in lockstep in capabilities. They're not.
Where are all of the options and features for Mac backups? What about incremental backups? Versioning schemes? Notifications? Compression? Priority?
The Mac version of the product is more or less equivalent to rsync with a GUI, but not much more.
I'm using v1.0.6680 of that product on Mac.
Am I missing something?
ATI for Mac has compression, but, other than that, it doesn't seem to offer any advantage over Carbon Copy Cloner and lacks many features of CCC. For the bare-minimum functionality offered in this product, it seems overpriced.
Edit of 10 July 2015: It sure didn't take me long to uninstall my trial version of ATI for Mac. Having been a loyal customer of Acronis for many years in the PC realm, it's a little difficult for me to believe that they have the nerve to charge $30 (or whatever they're asking at this time). It actually would be appropriate for a $3.99 app on the Mac App Store rather than an alleged commercial product. I'd go so far as to say that Acronis should withdraw this nearly worthless program from the market until they give it the same functionality it has in its Windows version.
The feature set of ATI:Mac is truly disappointing, albeit typical to the Mac universe where users aren't really in control of their own stuff.
On my PC's, ATI 2015 gives me great control to backup one specific large work-related data folder that is very important, but ignore other folders on the same HDD that aren't as important, and to do so with a custom incremental scheme that gives me a couple rollback points without taking up the space that many rollback points would. I can also control the amount of space backups consume and eliminate older chains if the space gets low. I can set a different schedule and different source and scheme for my system drive that changes less often, also doesn't need 10 rollback points, and isn't as large, but requires everything on the volume to be included.
Now on the Mac, you're forcing us to have 10 rollback points, very little (and cumbersome) control via exclusions to choose what we backup within a volume, and no ability to control the version scheme. Other than scheduling it to not occur in the middle of my workday, there seems to be little advantage over Time Machine, which is also a black box hidden from user control. Does everyone coding for a Mac assume their users are incapable of understanding and performing system maintenance tasks?
I'll still buy ATI for my PCs... as long as the Mac paradigm doesn't leak over into the PC side, dumbing down the software the way Norton Utilities did 'back in the day' when they went from useful to useless in the course of a version or two.