Mounting encrypted tib files
I'm trying to figure out how to best mount a tib file. In the old version, I could mount it from Windows Explorer if the file was not encrypted. If it was encrypted, however, you had to go into Acronis and mount it from there. It is my understanding that the mounting from the application has been removed from the newer versions. Is there any way to mount it with the new version if it is encrypted? The problem is it never prompts for the encryption password; it just triggers Windows admin password, then does nothing.
I know you can browse the tib file, but this is not the same, as I cannot get my search utilities to find the file I'm looking for using the browsing feature.
I'm wondering if there is some way to mount and force the prompting for the password, or can I temporarily decrypt and reencrypt the tib file?
The shell shortcut definitely doesn't seem to be doing anything, but I'm not convinced it is simply the encryption that is the problem. I don't seem to have any unencrypted backups to try.
Les,
All of my backups are encrypted. In ATIH 2016, when I double click on the .Tib's, it prompts me to enter the password (twice for some reason). After entering the password twice, they automatically open a Windows Explorer view and can be navigated like other non-encyrypted .Tib files. I can then copy and paste from this view to another location on my PC for recovery as well.
If you are double clicking on the .tib file and nothing happens, you may want to try removing ATIH completely and reinstalling. On a few of my PC's, where I had upgraded over the top of ATIH from an old version to the latest, the mounting did not work initially. However, after cleaning and reinstalling, all is functioning as it it should be. FYI though, cleaning and reinstalling will require you to create new backup tasks - you can import your old backups if you must, but if space is not an issue, I would just hold onto the old backups for posterity (if you need to), and start with fresh tasks to keep things fresh.
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/113656#comment-334624
Just to clarify, Bobbo_3C0X1, I can browse them by double-clicking. It does prompt for the password.
However, in order to search the file like a disk, I need to mount them. Otherwise, for some reason, Windows Explorer only seems to want to search the current folder. I'm fairly certain that in the old version, when I mounted the image as a disk, I could search the folder and subfolders like it was a real disk.
Les,
Sorry, yes, I've never tried searching for particular files in the mounted image this way, I typcially know where the files I need are located and just navigate there. I will have to test the "search/explore" feature in the mounted .TIB to see if it's the same for me.
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Mounting was removed in 2015 though
Thanks. The problem is that I need some old files from an old XP machine that was archvied before decommisioning, and I really don't know where the files were saved. I have found some by browsing, but others, I think I may need to scan the entired old drive. I was thinking I might try to restore to a virtual disk of some sort, but I've never done that before.
What virtualization software are you using? In VMWare Workstation, you can add a second virtual hard drive to an existing VM. You can then boot the original VM (the one with the OS on it), to Acronis bootable recovery by mounting an .iso to the CDrom and booting to it when the VM restarts. From there, you can use the ATIH offline bootable recovery media, point it to your old backup .tib files and tell it to restore to the new VM hard drive you setup. Once everything is restored, just boot to your VM like normal and you will see your second drive with the data there as well and can then copy and paste from the VM to your external drive or your local machine as needed with full Windows Explorer capability.
I would imagine you can do this with the free VMWare Player and/or other virtual applications like VirtualBox as well.
I use Oracle VirtualBox generally, but I think I can replicate it.
So, I find an existing XP machine in the VM. I create a new virtual disk and attach it to that virtual machine.
I then boot off of the recovery media in my virtual machine.
Then I restore the tib file to the virtual machine.
I think you can use any existing machine in your VM, shouldn't really matter. With your method above, you will be overwriting the exisitng image though so I would suggest not doing that. Instead...
Pick any virtual machine (shouldn't matter what OS is on it as long as it's Windows).
Add a second virtual disk to that machine, make sure to format it and give it a drive letter so that you see it in the VM's disk management).
Power off the VM and then boot it to the virtual CDrom which would be your mounted .iso that cotains the Acronis bootable recovery media.
Once the Acronis offline application comes up, restore your image to the newly added second virtual disk.
After the retore, boot back to the main virtual machine and you should see the data on the second virtual disk and can explore it and find the files/folders you need and copy it from there to wherever you need to restore them to.