ALL of my Backup files are corrupted, per error message
Hello,
I'm not sure what's going on here. I have Acronis 2020. I created a bootable Acrsonis USB key, using Acronis 2020. I boot off of that key and create complete backups of all of my systems to external 2tb USB drives each month. I actually use two separate external 2tb USB disks and alternate between the two each month. Every backup is a full backup, with a new filename (including the date) each month. I have successfully used my backups in the past to recover to a new hard drive in the past, so I don't know whats going on?

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Thomas, welcome to these public User Forums.
Where exactly are you seeing any error message(s) indicating that all of your backups are corrupt?
Do you have ATI 2020 installed within Windows? What is the build number for this as shown on the Account panel in the main GUI ? This should be build #38600 which was the final one released by Acronis.
If you are creating Disk backups using ATI 2020 from bootable media, then these should have the file extension of .TIBX and this should not be changed to be .TIB as was used for older versions as that would cause Acronis to see these files as being corrupt!
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Hi Steve,
I don't have a lot of time today, but I did take a quick look at the files on my external drives. They do have the extension of ".tib". Each backup I do, I just change the date within the file name, so the extension never gets changed. They used to work. Did they change the extension after 2020 was released. I'll try changing the extension to ".tibx" and see if they validate then. I'll let you know later.
Thanks for the quick response!
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Steve,
I changed the file extensions to .TIBX and now the files are validating. Thank you so much!
I thought I had done a recovery since upgrading to 2020, but apparently I had not.
Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New YEAR!!!
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