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Can I restore Acronis 2015 PC backup onto a Mac computer?

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Does anyone know if it's possible to restore a backup done on a Windows PC in Acronis 2015 onto a Mac computer? MacOS can read NTFS drives, but just not sure if I was to install Acronis on a Mac if it would recognize the backups on the drive that were written using the PC version. Anyone ever done this?

Obviously, I'm just talking about data files. Not a full system backup (ie, no OS restore...just file structure). 

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It's not possible (at least not when I tried with 2016 - maybe it's progressed with 2017, but I have not used it for Mac and since you're using 2015, pretty sure it won't work for you either).

The Acronis backp for Mac and Windows are different. You would want to restore the data first from a Windows backup and then copy it to the Mac.

Wouldn't hurt to try though.  Boot your Mac Acronis recovery media (the offline one) and start the restore process using file/folder.  Navigate to the existing windows created Acronis .tib and if it likes it, yoiu should be able to navigate content of it and then attempt a recovery to some exernal drive or obscure folder for testing. 

As for NTFS... if you copy the .tib to an OS X journaled partioned external drive, that may help too.  Mac's can read NTFS, but generally won't let you do anything other than read (copy is Write). 

 

Thank you...that's what I suspected. I have an inherited, but not that old, Windows PC that I will probably turn into a file server once my Windows desktop finally dies. Probably best to just restore to that to avoid any complications. Thanks for the response...much appreciated. 

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Yeah, if you have a Windows machine, just restore with it - keeps it simple(r).  You can also look to a VM on the Mac side to run Windows from within it and do Windows file restores as well.  Most virtual software on the Macs (Parallels, VMWare fusion), will set you back about $100 though.  On top of that, then you'd need a Windows license key to activate the Windows VM so coudl cost more.  Do-able, but more work than it's worth since you have a Windows machine at the moment.