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Acronis 2021

When I set the reserve backup copy format to "copy source files as is" , and select OK, it automatically changes back to tib.

This is a fresh install.

How can this be fixed?

Thank you

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Cindy Sue, welcome to these public User Forums.

The Reserve Copy will always be another .TIB file as it is just another backup archive that is created after the main backup has completed.

Acronis does not just copy source files to a destination location when doing backups.

See the ATI 2021 User Guide: Backup Reserve Copy for a full description of this feature.

The statement in the user guide:

You can create it as an Acronis backup (.tib files) or just copy the source files to the selected location as is, without any modification.

is incorrect and there is never any copy of the source files as is!  I have tested this again myself with a small folder as source and a .tib file was always created!

If you are not happy with how this works then you will need to raise this directly with Acronis which would also require that you show the same behaviour when using Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office as there is no support available for any Acronis True Image version.

I can also confirm the same behaviour with ACPHO, i.e. reserve copy creates a .tib file.