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Hello Acronis,

How does one restore data out of a tib image backup that has NTFS permissions? If you open the tib file and try to restore data it works, but it's super slow. I have two M2 drives in raid0 on a brand new high end core i7 PC. I can read/write from my storage at 3000 MB/sec. My hardware is not a bottleneck. Your product does not appear to allow for the rapid restore of data by simply opening a TIB. The second best idea was to mount the TIB and simply copy the data. However, NTFS permissions prevent this. If you could mount the data Read/Write you could update the NTFS permissions and transfer the data.

So the question is, will Acronis consider returning the mount Read/Write option. A feature that people like myself would make use of on a regular basis?

TFR

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Travis, this is just a User Forum so it is unlikely that your question to Acronis will get read by anyone from the company.

You would need to either open a Support Case or use the Feedback tool to get this question to Acronis.

ATI never did have a true Read/Write option - yes, some earlier version did allow you to make changes but those changes were never applied to the original data but were saved as an additional incremental .tib file, so you would still need to perform a full restore of the full .tib backup version chain to get those changes applied.

If the data being restored is pure user data, i.e. does not include OS files, folders etc, then you can select to not restore the original permissions for the data.

If you are restoring OS data then you really do need to do this as a disk & partitions restore operation and should be doing this from the bootable Acronis Rescue media.  This in turn requires that your RAID drives present as a single drive unless you have created the WinPE version of Rescue Media and have injected any necessary RAID drivers to that media.

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Hello Travis,

I've passed your feature request to the product team. Currently adding this feature is not planned, so we can only suggest stick with the options described by Steve. 

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Hi,

i need this option too. I made an image of an old machine and a few days later i was wondering why there is no more space left on my nas. as i explored the image file i saw that there are 700gb of old tib images included. i want to delete this tib files from the image because i have copies of them. without the write option i have no chance to delete the images out of the image file. the original disks are destroyed. i'm very unhappy about the situation that acronis has removed this feature already that i used in 2011. so now the only way for me is to write the image to a disk an delete the tib files and make an new image. that is horrible with multiterabyte disks. additionaly i'm very surprised about finding tib wihtin an acronis image. i thought it would be a standard file exclusion. i'm using acronis at work an at home since 2009 and i'm very unhappy with this feature reduction! i hope acronis will find a fast and userfriendly solution for this issue!

regards martin

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Hello Martin,

added your feedback to the feature request, thank you! 

Regarding the default exclusions - .tib files indeed belong to them, check out the screenshot

Martin, if you created the backup using the Acronis Rescue Media rather than from within the installed Windows ATI application, then you need to add in these exclusions manually as there are none by default in the offline application.

The only way around the issue that you have presented would be to recover the very large backup image to a spare HDD of sufficient capacity, then delete the unwanted .tib files from that recovered drive, followed by making a new backup image of the modified drive, including setting any further exclusions for other large system files that are normally omitted, i.e. pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys and swapfile.sys (if Windows 8 or later).