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How to move tibx files onto an offline drive. Without having to run the backup again.

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We run Acronis Cyber backup 12.5, and it backs up all of our backups to a NAS device.

Attached to this NAS device is an external hard drive, where we put data, and then remove the HD as an offline copy of the data, stick it in a vault and then don't think about it for a several years, unless it is required.

One way to put data there, is to use Acronis to create a second backup on that location, which ties up the resources of all the servers that need to be backed up again, cuts into normal backup times, and puts a load on the systems being backed up, as well as eats up the network bandwidth.

But there is already a backup on the NAS, that runs daily.  I tried to copy the TIBX files from the NAS to the attached ext. hard drive, and it worked, partially.  I only copied over the last TIBX file, which contained all of the incremental and last full backup.  When I mount the drive in Acronis CB 12,5, this backup showed up as available.  It also showed all the other backups that were not available, but this was not a deal breaker.  Ugly but still functional, just had to let everyone know if you restore from the external HD, you only had the last full and it's incrementals available.

So this worked for my VM backups, and my SQL backups.  However, for some reason when I did this with my Exchange backups, it still was trying to reference older TIBX files.  I would think that if I make a full backup, there should not be any data required beyond that backup to restore the data.

Part of the reason for creating a new full backup is it doesn't rely on previous TIBX files.  It lets you restore your data, if one of those gets corrupted.

Any guidance on this would be great.  Perhaps my methodology is in question.

My thought is I should be able to create a drive with data on it that I can take offline, and if and when an asteroid destroys my business, I can pull that drive out of storage and restore the files from it, should that happen.

Thanks,

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William, sorry but your post is in the forum for Acronis True Image 2021, not for Cyber Backup. Only the forum moderator can move topics.

Hello William!

If you have an advanced licence, you can setup a replication plan that is idependent of the devices you are backing up. With such a plan you can handle moving/copying data from your NAS to your external device, that only involves them and an agent to execute the operation.

-- Peter