Need to backup to offsite location, .tib too darn big!
Howdy,
I'm in need of saving full system images to an offsite location daily. My problem is, the .tib files that Acronis makes are too darn big! How am I supposed to transfer 150GB over the internet if my ISP's data cap is 150GB monthy? Using Acronis' built-in bootable media creator, you can take that .tib and convert it to a much more manageable 850MB .iso file ready to be burned to a USB or disc. Only problem is, I need to automate this process, and there doesn't seem to be a clean way to do so. Has anyone come up with a nifty way to perform this task?
Thanks!


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Andy wrote: "Using Acronis' built-in bootable media creator, you can take that [150GB] .tib and convert it to a much more manageable 850MB .iso file ready to be burned to a USB or disc. "
I am not sure where you found that information but sorry I do not believe it is correct - there is no way it is possible to convert 150GB of .tib file data into less than 1GB whether as a .ISO file or any other type of file!
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The only possibility I can think of is to use a file splitting utility. They were popular back in the days when we use floppy disks. I think programs in with "ZIP" in there name allow the creation of *.zip and other archive formats split across multiple smaller files - useful when emailing things in pre-Dropbox era. Just checked and Directory Opus (my favoured file manager) allows this to be done without resorting to zipping.
Ian
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" Using Acronis' built-in bootable media creator, you can take that .tib and convert it to a much more manageable 850MB .iso file ready to be burned to a USB or disc. "
Are you sure you are not looking at the size of the recovery system itself? That's about twice the size of my various recovery media but at least within the ballpark.
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Maybe he means that he's setting the size of the .tib to 850Mb? It would still result in multiple TIB files, just broken into 850Mb chunks that add up to whatever size the actual backup needs to be. If that's the case, you'd still be transferring the same amount of data.
I agree, there is no way to actually compress a backup into something smaller than it already is. Just make sure to NOT select sector-by-sector and you could try to set the Performance >>> compression level = MAX to try and squeak out some additional compression at the cost of backup speed.
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