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Supported Drive Formats for Carbonite Safe

Summary:

Carbonite supports current drive formats.

This article applies to:

Carbonite Plans Products Platforms
Basic, Plus, Prime, Core, Power, and Ultimate (Not sure?) Safe, Safe Pro, and Carbonite Safe Server Backup (Not sure?) Windows and Mac

Solution:

Operating System Supported Format Unsupported Format
Mac APFS exFAT (Mac 1x only)
exFat (Mac 2x only) FAT32
HFS+ (also known as Mac OS Extended)

ReFS

NTFS
Windows FAT32 exFAT
NTFS ReFS (Carbonite Safe and Carbonite Safe Backup Pro only)
ReFS (Carbonite Safe Server Backup only)

*Note we do not support Apple Airport or Time Machine based external hard drives

Additional resources:
Supported Processors for Carbonite Safe
Supported Operating Systems for Carbonite Safe

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