Acronis Bootable .iso does not see my .tib files
I am coming from Ghost and was testing Acronis and am having an issue.
I downloaded the Acronis Bootable Media .iso and copied it to a bootable usb. I booted to the usb, selected the .iso, and used Acronis to do a full drive image of a machine running Windows XP to an external usb hard drive. I had to reload that machine with Windows 7 to test some software and when finished tried to load the XP image back on it. I booted using the bootable usb again, selected the Acronis .iso and it sees the external usb drive, but does not recognize that there is an image on it. I have .tib full disk images of a few other machines and copied them to the external usb hard drive and Acronis does not see them either. Any idea why?
I must have been misinformed. I had deleted all the files except for the .tibs since I had been advised by a co-worker that only the .tibs were needed for what I was doing (using the bootable media to backup and recover to/from an external usb hard drive). I just done that same thing I had previously but did not delete all the other files and I can see that backup in Acronis.
This one backup image caused the creation of one .xml file, three .lck files, a folder called "Catalog" with one .loc file in it, and a subfolder with another .loc in it. That is two folders and six files in addition to the .tib !!!!! Seems like a lot of clutter. All I ever needed with my previous imaging solution was one single file to do restoration. I can see how some of these would be needed for the catalog feature, vault information if using the management console, etc but I hope I can safely delete most of these.
I have 30 seats and will be using the management console soon. I was hoping I could do like I had been with my previous solution. I am used to copying just the single image file to a usb hard drive then taking a bootable usb stick the usb hard drive out in the field. I would boot from usb, run my utility from it, and load the image file from the usb hard drive. In addition to doing that, I may want to store some images outside the vault. Which of these extra files needs to be kept with the .tib to be able to load it like I want?
You need a .tib file and .xml file with the same name as the name of archive. You don't need .lck files, and if you don't want to recover using catalog view, you can skip the whole catalog folder too.
I had a suspicion that the only other necessary file was the .xml to do a full disk restore but you saved me the time of having to test that. TY Sir.