tibx - not as advertised, or wanted
I've used ATI for years and 95% of my usage is FULL disk images. I.e. not incremental. I need to be able to recover using a single backup. I want to keep multiple copies of those images, and for long periods, like years.
In the awful ATI user interface there used to be (as I remember) a "custom" option and you just chose "full" or something like that.
And now ... well it's the same, but it's actually not. The same interface config (custom + full) gets you the new-fangled .tibx backup which - whatever the FAQs etc say, is NOT a full backup, it's incremental, isn't it?
Either that or it's broken on my machine.
I'm actively looking for an Acronis backup alternative because of the time I waste working around the clunky user interface and the predictable defects and inconsistencies that abound.
Any comments on how to get back to the previous non-.tibx scheme?
Or how to fix the current one to do things as expected?


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Steve - great, thanks for those pointers. Am really sad that ATI is gradually deteriorating. The UI is clunky and does not always provide obvious ways to do things. And sometime it does and sometimes it does not, without saying why. And now they change functionality without warning. Yes without warning - I don't regularly read ATI web FAQ's etc and having updated to 2020 I was not aware that if I created a new backup action it would be .tibx, not .tib.
I'm probably going to try to reinstall 2019 and forget about everything else. At least it will save me the upgrade costs!
I took a look at those 2 topics but ran out of enthusiasm when I saw how long they are and with many questions and answers. Any chance of summarising in one post the current situation as you see it?
I might try the workaround(s) if they are reckoned to be safe (i.e. will restore) and will not break when Acronis releases updates (to 2020/2021).
Thanks!
PS yes I have sent feedback to Acronis too.
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David, if you are staying with ATI 2020 then using the method of creating disk backups as .tib is probably the easiest option. All Files & Folders backups continue to use .tib files and have not been migrated to using .tibx in 2020 or 2021, so those continue to work as in previous versions.
Disk backups using .tib files will work just the same as they did in ATI 2019.
The initial post in forum topic: How to create a Disk backup as .tib (not .tibx) has all the steps needed to do this. There is also a link to a Powershell script that automates the script modification process if you would like to use it.
Note: Acronis Active Protection needs to be turned off before trying to modify the script .tib.tis file, and this only works for new backup tasks, not for existing tasks already using .tibx files. This has been tested with both 2020 and 2021 versions and still works fine.
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