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Taking copies of TIBX backup files

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Try as a might, I can never get Acronis TI to back up to my QNAP TS412 NAS drives for long before I start getting errors and have to clone the backup scheme and start over (the files always end up unreadable by Acronis TI even though they are there on the shared drive)

I've got around the problem by installing a large HDD on the local computers and backing up directly to there, but that doesn't give me the same level of security so ... if I was to regularly copy the TIBX files from the local backup drive ot the NAS drive after each backup, would those files be usable in the case of a catstrophic failure of the local computer?  How would I go about reintroducing the 2nd copies back onto a new PC if it ever came to a complete new PC or reinstall of PC?  Thanks.

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Chris, copying any .tibx files can be problematic for various reasons, partially due to Active Protection which will try to prevent such actions if enabled, and because of the use of metadata within the files and in the internal Acronis database used for tracking backup files.

The main key to copying these files is to always mirror the content from your main large HDD storage drive to your NAS, and to not attempt to access those copied files on the NAS while the original files & task remain in the Acronis GUI.

If you are using incremental .tibx backups, where the incremental slices are automatically consolidated with the initial full .tibx file, then you have the further concern over the higher volumes of data that need to be copied / mirrored to the NAS.

It might be better to try to resolve the issues around writing backups direct to your NAS if possible.  I have separate backup tasks that go to different destinations, including regular tasks to my own Synology NAS which works fine across my own network.

Thanks Steve,

Insightful, useful responses as always. Thanks.

I suspect my aging QNAP TS-412's are just getting too long in the tooth to cope as a backup destination.  Maybe I should switch technology from QNAP to Synology too?   (I assume the WD RED drives aren't the problem and I've long ago stopped using RAID 5 which further slowed down the NAS drives).