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How to recover tibx file to a VMWare VM

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Is it possible and are there instructions to recover a tibx file (from a none virtual PC) to a new VM using Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office ?

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Shachar, welcome to these public User Forums.

See YouTube video here - this was using ATI 2021 but the principle is exactly the same for ACPHO.

Thanks Steve.

I tried to follow the video but I am facing some issues.

I created a new VM using the Acronis bootable PE media for Win10 x64.

The created VM loads and I am able to select the tibx file from a USB driver.

When I attempt to recover the file, I do not get to select the VM drive as target for recovery.

The only drive I see is of the USB where the tibx file is located.

Any idea?

Shachar, sorry but more information is needed to help you further.

What system was the .tibx created from, what OS, how does it boot?  Was the source system a legacy / MBR system, or was it an UEFI / GPT system?

What size of disk drive was backed up from the source system, was this a backup of only a single drive?

This information then helps decide how the new VMware VM has to be created?

What system was the .tibx created from, what OS, how does it boot?  Was the source system a legacy / MBR system, or was it an UEFI / GPT system?

It was a win 7 x64 SP1. Boots from MBR

What size of disk drive was backed up from the source system, was this a backup of only a single drive?

 I created a VM with a disk of 200GB and 8GB or RAM 

When the VM is booted from the Acronis rescue media, click on Tools > Add new disk and check if you can see the Virtual disk in that panel view?

If you can, then initialise the virtual disk as MBR but leave it as unallocated space (no need to create any partitions as Acronis will do that during the recovery).

Recovering Tibx file:

- Launch Acronis Backup & Recovery and select Recover.

- Choose Select Data and select the disk to convert using the Data View tab or the Archive View tab, depending on where the backup is stored.

- Select New Virtual Machine in the Recover-To section. Select Save the Virtual Machine As a Set of Files and select VMware as the machine type to create a new virtual machine you can configure with VMWare Workstation; or select Create a New Virtual Machine on the Server and select an ESX(i) virtual appliance server to store and manage the machine. Choose OK when done.

- Adjust the virtual machine settings, such as the number of processors, amount of memory, type of disk and network configuration as necessary in the Virtual Machine Settings section.

- Choose Recovery Options and modify the settings as appropriate. Choose Start New Virtual Machine Automatically in the VM Power Management section if you want to auto-start a new machine created on the ESX(i) server.

- Set the time you want the recovery task to start or choose Recover Now and select OK. Enter the user credentials for Acronis use when automatically logging in if you set the recovery task for a future date.

- Choose the Backup Plans and Tasks view to monitor the status of the recovery. Access your new virtual machine and the converted VMDK disk when the process is complete.

 

Hope this helps,
J wick

Jimmy, welcome to these public User Forums.

Thanks for sharing your information above.  The steps are obviously different when using the Acronis Backup & Recovery application as compared to either Acronis True Image or the reincarnation of it as Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, as there are no matching options for recovering directly to a New Virtual Machine which is a pity!