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Must I use Acronis to restore?

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Client wants another seperate backup of a certain folder on the server.
CanI use Acronis to make a backup in a way that does not require Acronis to restore?
They will keep the daat indefinitely and might not have Acronis to restore in 20 years.

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If you make any type of image of file backup it will require an Acronis product to restore it. Can't your clients store either a recovery Cd or an ISO version on a USB stick for furutre recovery?

If you are using the Home version (TI2013) you can make images in a zip format. your other option is to store images as a VHD in which case Windows will be able to access them or if the VHD contains an OS boot from them.

***edit further thought****

Your clients could also install the recovery media onto the external drive in its own partition, meaning so long as their PC can boot from external media, they would always be able to recover their images.

There's no guarantee that a .TIB file you create today will be readable by a future Acronis version in two years (two "versions" down the road). At least none that I know of. Don't actually think about twenty.

Recovery ISO is also not practical because you'll have a hard time finding a computer in 5 years that a recovery ISO will be able to boot from (well -- maybe a 5 year old machine). Don't think about it in 20 years.

For long time storage/archiving: don't use proprietary formats. Never. Either store the files directly or use an archive format that's documented and widely used/supported. ZIP and tar.gz are candidates, depending on your platform. VHD might be a candidate too (it's documented under a somewhat-open license and lots of tools can read it).

Acronis TI or B&R are (IMHO) not designed for long or mid-term archiving. Mainly because - even if Acronis may promise backwards compatibility - nobody knows if Acronis will be around in 20 years.