Must I use Acronis to restore?
Client wants another seperate backup of a certain folder on the server.
CanI use Acronis to make a backup in a way that does not require Acronis to restore?
They will keep the daat indefinitely and might not have Acronis to restore in 20 years.

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There's no guarantee that a .TIB file you create today will be readable by a future Acronis version in two years (two "versions" down the road). At least none that I know of. Don't actually think about twenty.
Recovery ISO is also not practical because you'll have a hard time finding a computer in 5 years that a recovery ISO will be able to boot from (well -- maybe a 5 year old machine). Don't think about it in 20 years.
For long time storage/archiving: don't use proprietary formats. Never. Either store the files directly or use an archive format that's documented and widely used/supported. ZIP and tar.gz are candidates, depending on your platform. VHD might be a candidate too (it's documented under a somewhat-open license and lots of tools can read it).
Acronis TI or B&R are (IMHO) not designed for long or mid-term archiving. Mainly because - even if Acronis may promise backwards compatibility - nobody knows if Acronis will be around in 20 years.
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