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How to recover/restore a partition (of the past)

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Hello,

 

How can I recover a backup from some time ago (before 2018 version)?

I have this tib-file, which I only can mount or browse, but no longer can recover by the Acronis GUI version.

Must I Always use the Rescue Media for that ?

 

Regards

 

Kees

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Kees, a lot depends on what the backup is that you are talking about here?

If it is a Windows OS backup, then I would recommend using the Acronis Rescue Media if you are intending to restore / recover it and make it an active Windows OS again.

For most other types of backup image, then simply use the Option to Add existing backup that can be found at the bottom of the main GUI (hidden behind a carat) to the right of the option to Add new backup.

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Hi Steve,

Thank you for the quick reaction.

Well, it's Windows. And sometimes I want to restore it to a previous state for testing purposes.

It's a pity that that doesn't work anymore, as for the previous version I used, you could right-click the tib-file, and the context menu would ask me what tot do with it. And Recover was one of them.

Never had trouble with overwriting a MBR record either.

Also was I able to choose recovery first, then browse for a tib-file.

I always make Full-copy (not incrementals) but now it says: cannot find version 1.

What is the purpose of that ? Version 1 is a full copy, as is the later one I was looking for.

So I don't see the functionality of that.

In my opinion the GUI in the previous versions was better and the possibillities more flexible.

 

 

Regards,

 

Kees

 

 

 

Kees, if you do a recovery from within the Windows ATI GUI then you would need to first add the backup file as an existing file, then you will get the Recover options for that file, which in ATI 2018 are now shown at the top right.

The key point about doing this type of recovery is that ATI will need to restart the computer after first modifying your Windows Boot Configuration Data to create a temporary Linux OS boot environment from which to launch ATI to do the actual recovery.

When you do this from within the Windows ATI application, it also references the Database to check for all versions recorded there for the backup, so can give errors if files are found missing that the database knows about.  If you use the boot media to do the recovery, then the database is not involved, as it wouldn't exist in a bare-metal recovery scenario, so all that matters is that the backup image file is found along with any additional files needed by it if recovering an incremental or differential backup image.

Thanks Steve,

 

That did the trick.

 

Kees