| Acronis True Image 2017 | Acronis Backup 12.5 | Paragon Backup & Recovery 16 | Clonezilla Live |
Languages | German English Japanese Russian Italian Spanish Korean Chinese Polish Czech Dutch Indonesian Portuguese | German English Japanese Russian French Italian Spanish Korean Chinese Polish Czech Hungarian Danish Dutch Turkish Portuguese | German English French Italian (Each language version requires its own installation) | Deutsch English Spanish Catalonian French Italian Japanese Portuguese Russian Slovakian Turkish Chinese |
Licensing model | Permanent license (1, 3 or 5 computers) Yearly subscription (1, 3 or 5 computers) | Subscription for 1, 2, or 3 years Unlimited license | Free edition Paid single license | Free software (GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2) |
Supporting systems | Windows: Windows XP SP3 (32 Bit) Windows 7 SP1 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10 Windows Home Server 2011 OS X/macOS: OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite) OS X 10.11.6+ (El Capitan) macOS 10.12 (Sierra) | Windows: Windows 10, 8/8.1, 7 Windows Vista Windows XP Professional SP3 (x86, x64) Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2012 (R2), 2008 (R2), 2003 (R2) Windows Small Business Server 2011, 2008, 2003 (R2) Windows MultiPoint Server 2012, 2011, 2010 Windows Storage Server 2012 (R2), 2008 (R2), 2003 Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x - 7.3 Ubuntu 9.10 - 16.04 Fedora 11 – 23 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 – 12 Debian 4 - 8.5 CentOS 5.x - 7.3 CloudLinux 7, 7.1 ClearOS 5.x, 6.x, 7, 7.1 Oracle Linux 5.x - 7.3 OS X/macOS: OS X 10.8 – 10.12 Mobile devices operating systems: iOS 8 or higher Android 4.1 or higher Cloud: Microsoft 365 mailboxes Amazon Web Services EC2 instances Microsoft Azure VMs | Windows: Windows 10 Windows 8/8.1 Windows 7 All operating systems supported as 32-bit or 64-bit versions | Windows: All OS X/macOS: Intel-based Mac OS GNU/Linux : All Other: FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD Minix VMWare ESX Chrome OS/Chromium OS All operating systems supported as 32-bit or 64-bit versions |
Boot medium | Rescue medium as CD, DVD, USB storage device, or ISO file | Windows PE-, Linux- or mac-based rescue medium as CD, DVD, USB storage device, or ISO file | Windows PE rescue medium as CD, DVD, Blu-ray disc, USB- storage device, or ISO file | Rescue medium as CD, DVD, or USB PXE |
Supported file systems | FAT16/32 NTFS ext2/ext3/ext4 ReiserFS Linux Swap exFAT HFS+ | FAT16/32 NTFS HPFS ReFS ext2/ext3/ext4 ReiserFS3 Reiser4 XFS JFS Linux Swap | ReFS NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1) FAT16/FAT32 ext2/ext3/ext4 Linux Swap HFS+ | FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 NTFS ext2/ext3/ext4 ReiserFS Reiser4 XFS JFS Btrfs F2FS NILFS2 HFS+ UFS Minix VMFS3/VMFS5 |
Supported interfaces and storage media | Windows: HDDs (hard disk drives) SSD (solid state drives) Networked storage devices (NAS) FTP server CD-R/RW DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM BD-R, BD-RE USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0 eSATA FireWire (IEEE-1394) PC card storage devices OS X/macOS: Internal drives (HDD, SSD, RAID) USB drives FireWire drives Thunderbolt Network sharing, NAS | Standard edition: Local drives based on SATA, SCSI, IDE, RAID Network storage devices such as NAS systems based on SMB, NFS, iSCSI, FC Removable drives like ZIP, Rev, RDX External hard drives like SSDs based on USB 3.0/2.0/1.1 and IEEE1394/Firewire Acronis cloud storage Advanced edition also includes: Tape drives, autoloader, and tape libraries (including media management and barcode support) | Windows: HDDs SSDs AFDs (advanced format drives) Networked storage devices (NAS) FTP server CD-R/RW DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/DVD/RW, DVD+/-R (DL) BD-R/BD-RE Windows storage spaces Parallel ATA (IDE) Serial ATA (SATA) External SATA (eSATA) SCSI, iSCSI All RAID levels from SCSI-, SATA- and IDE-controllers RAID (Hardware-RAIDs) IEEE 1394 (FireWire) USB 1.0/2.0/3.0 PC card storage devices UEFI | Internal and external hard drives USB 2.0 Firewire SATA FTP/Windows/Samba clearance |
Supported partition tables | MBR (Master boot record) GPT (GUID partition table) | MBR GPT | MBR GPT | MBR GPT |
Backup in the cloud | Cloud storage only included in subscription models (Plus and Premium) Additional cloud add-on required for the purchase of a permanent license (Essential) | Yes | No | No |
Backup for mobile devices | Smartphones and tablets with Android 4.1 (or higher) iPhone, iPad, or iPod with iOS 8.x (or higher) | Smartphones and tablets with Android 4.1 (or higher) iPhone, iPad, or iPod with iOS 8.x (or higher) | No | No |
Remote backup | Yes | Yes | No | Only in the server edition (Clonezilla SE) |
Social media backup | Only for Windows PCs in a yearly subscription | Yes | No | No |
Encryption | 256 bit AES end-to-end encryption | 256 bit AES end-to-end encryption | No | Encryption for the image file via ecryptfs (AES 256 encryption) |
Compression | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Supported backup types | Image-based backups File-level backups | Image-based backups File-level backups | Image-based backups File-level backups | Image-based backups |
Supported backup procedures | Full backups Differential backups Incremental backups | Full backups Differential backups Incremental backups | Full backups Differential backups Incremental backups | Full backups |
Automatic backups | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Anti-ransomware | Yes (only with premium subscription) | Yes | No | No |
Backup authentication | Yes (only with premium subscription) | Yes | No | No |
Updates | Free product updates (unlimited with subscription only) | Free upgrades to new versions (unlimited with subscription only) | Free product updates | Free product updates |
Support | Live chat service Phone-line customer support Documentation including online help for Mac and PC | Round-the-clock support (24/7) | Support for the free edition only via the support forum Paid version includes free support | User forum Mailing list |