how to undelete tib file (help)

Oh my.
If the tib file is on the same partition as your system then don't even reply to this but you can possibly wait for more replies.
In your situation I would go to here http://www.filehippo.com/download_recuva directly, download the recuva program and run it without logging out and doing as little else as possible. Using Recuva, let it search and try and find your tib file where ever it was you deleted it from. Obviously if it finds it then let it recover it. I do hope this or if not something else will work for you, Good Luck

thank you very much.
i was try the recuva ,but just only can recover my test del file size 468MB
when i try to recover my wrong del file (4.6GB) ,the result is not found
T_T

I really don't know of any other readily available software that can help.

Is the tib file you want on a seperate disk drive? From what you said originally it isn't in which case the tib file will not be recoverable

How did you delete the file? By opening Windows Explorer and pressing delete or from within TI 2010?

Assuming you just pressed delete in Explorer:

If you haven't installed any new programs or used any program that will store a file on your hard drive, then in theory as Bin said, it should be either completely or partly (except a part tib file will be no use for a restore) recoverable.

You might well need to purchase one of the undelete programs, free ones whilst often work, may not be up to the task.

However, is there anything that would be in the image you deleted that wouldn't be still on your drive and in a new image if you made one?

If tib file delete by acronis bootable CD...never can't be recovering it by anyone software,isn't it...

Marco.

The tib file is the same as any other file as far as the way the information is layed out on a disk drive and added to the file indexing system of that drive, so it might be possible using undelete software to recover a deleted image. However, because a tib file can be very large, it is also very likely for the information on the drive to have been overwritten or otherwise corrupted by the way disk file systems work.

Colin,

Ih I need to purchase a program, which would you recommend? I want to be able to recover entire folders without having to mark each file.

Cliff

Cliff,

Strangely enough I don't own or use a file undelete program.

Perhaps UnErase 6 might be of use to you - a Google search should bring it up.

Thanks for the help. I'll try it. you're lucky you haven't needed one.

Cliff

has anyone ever come up with a solution to the bootable disk erasing a "tib" file. I have a real need for a solution. I have tried Recuva and several other programs, NONE seem to even see the file... Has anyone talked to Tech support about this issue? It seems as if the bootable CD erases in a non standard windows way...

Thanks in advance for any help

Christopher Fraction wrote:

It seems as if the bootable CD erases in a non standard windows way...

That's possible, since it does not run in Windows. It's based on Linux.

http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/

PS. Don't delete .tib files or backups to begin with and you won't have this problem.

Dear Whooaahh

What are you suggesting? That I pay to have this data recovered? Please, I just got on this forum, I do not need solicitations for companies. Do you work for dsdr.com?

I need some help, and from what I see, I am not alone in this category.

It seems as if there is a need for a double confirm on the the part of Acronis in this case....

IF you can inform me of some useful information, I will and others will appreciate your assistance. THANKS

Now I realized that the boot disk was running in Linux but my windows history has me to believe that placing a ? mark in the first file name position is historically how windows or DOS did it...

Thanks again for all the HELP...

Christopher,

I don't work for them. Reading the thread, I saw the OP attempted to use other software to recover deleted data and it failed, as well as for you. Which leads me to the fact of you should probably make your own post and not piggyback off an old thread. It's also not up to the software company's responsibility for this type of issue. If you delete an important MS Word doc, empty the trash, continue working and realize you want it back. Do you think Microsoft will really care?

The most likely way to get the data back is professional recovery service, and they are the industry leader, thus far. If you don't like suggestions, don't post on a forum. Simple as that.

One should also always treat the 'delete file', or 'delete backup' or the deletion of anything as once you do it, it's gone forever, even though it may go into the Recycle Bin, or is recoverable with reasonable means.

OK

Lets start with the premise that I did not have any experience working with the boot disk system.

That said "NORMALLY" when you work with windows environment I can, and other can recover so called deleted files. Even if most people that work with windows understand that an erased file is not really erased, it has just had it name changed so explorer or dir does not include it in it display when asked to do so. But I will not digress further...

I will repeat others and myself have inadvertently, by lack of knowledge, "accidentally" deleted a tib files, I lost 6 backups trying to delete one.

MOST software designers will "double caution" application users when they are about to do very harmful or hard to recover from things. I think IMHO this is an applicable instance here. Trust me I will double backup my Backups from Acronis from here on.

I think a testing out of the boot disk software would have revealed this catastrophic consequence of just saying take this off my list of backups.

The software applications that I have had a part in developing would have included a warning at least.

Lets work toward that as a goal or at least warn folks here of the danger. I am really hoping that Acronis will give out a work around so that I and others can recover. I hope to do so, even if Acronis does not provide the answer here. I want to share a SOLUTION... In my heart of hearts I think that the tib file is still sitting on my external Seagate drive. At least I hope so. In the old days I would have whipped out Norton Utilities and fixed it in a heart beat. Lo WIndows 7 8 and Linux ... 21st century...

Hi,

I deleted my backup.tib file by mistake (thru windows explorer). I restored it again  by support of one of the recovery apps (from Wondershare live boot cd as I remember well). But the result is that the restored stuff it is not one tib file (as I need) but it expands into set of files (see attached picture). The sum of these files seems to be equal to origin bakup.tib. One way or the other I don´t know what to do (with the files) - how to get to my backuped files again. Does anybody can help me?

Thanks

Robert,

Is that screenshot from within your undelete program, as the file information looks strange?

Do you store your files as FAT32 4GB split archives or as single archive? In other words was there just one tib file in the archive or multiple tibs files, multiple archives?

Which undelete program did you use?

Do you store your tib files on a dedicated drive or on a drive that is accessed by other programs?  If on a drive used by other programs, then file locations where the tib file once was may have been overwritten meaning the tib file can not be recovered correctly.

I don't know of any way to stitch broken tib files back together.

Robert, are you sure that this was an Acronis backup image file (file.TIB) as the file names look far more like a Paragon Backup & Recovery file set to me than an Acronis image?

Colin,

No my screenshot is not captured from within the undelete program, but within a file manager program under windows (Multi Commander) as result of recovery.

The backup was in origin one tib file and one time backup (no multiples backups) and it was stored on NTFS external drive.

The backup.tib was deleted by me with choice "not delete it to bin" because I was persuated I will never need it and I needed that space on the HDD free for next backup.

Then I went to recovery program thru bootup cd and foud lost.dir with these files into.

Steve,

I am 100% sure that my deleted file was the Acronis backup file (TIB) a big backup of entire HDD 64 GB. Although I used the Paragon Backup and Recovery (PRR) for some of my previous backups this was not the case.

But you are absolutely right that the set of recovered files are extreamly similar to above mentioned program especially the combination of  three chars for file extensiones are equal to them uses by the PRR. But there are signifficant difference between backup made of PRR (and mine set): it consists two files file.pbf and file.pfm. And I have only one file.pfi

Robert, I have never seen Acronis produce image files with this naming format or extension.

The only way that I am aware that you could attempt to 'stitch' these files back together again would be to do a binary copy command from the Windows Command prompt window.  See Appending Binary Files Using the COPY Command

This would equate to doing something as follows:

copy arc_.001 /b + arc_.002 /b + arc_.003 /b  ...  newfile.tib

Where you would need to include all the arc_ files starting from .001 to .009 then 00a to 00f then finally 010 in order to establish the correct segment order based on the ordering in the file extensions (which are in hexadecimal order).

I would recommend renaming the arc_nnnnn files to be much shorter to make the binary copy easier!

At the end of the process there is still no guarantee that Acronis will recognise the final .tib file as being a valid Acronis archive image file.

Steve,

thanks for great support. I did everythink what you adwise to me but the Acronis has refused to handle with the backup.tib file at all. The message was something like 'This is not the last archive file of the backup'. One or the other way thanks again.