TIB Reader / Viewer / File specifications
Hello,
I would like to know if there is an application which can read *.tib containers or if there is a technical specification about the file format?
I don't need to modify or create new container files. I just have some old backups which where made with Acronis True Image 20xx (I can't remember) and I can't extract the files back because I don't have the software anymore. I would like to be able to extract files from TIB containers without installing anything or booting with a bootable CD/DVD. Is that possible?
I might try to write a tool for that but without a file specification it is not that easy. What I have found out so far: info.txt (see attachment below)
I could also extract some files from some TIB files successfully. Each entry seems to have an unknown 10 Byte header, then a 4 byte (32-bit int) size of following file name (amount of characters - not bytes), then the variable file name with 2 bytes per character, then 63 bytes of unknown data, then the payload (file content) length as at least 64-bit integer (in order to backup files > 4 GB), and last 4 bytes are always zero (unknown). Then the next file entry block begins. This is a table with the first files from a TIB container: info2.txt (see attachment below)
The problem is that the specified file size does match sometimes (mainly) but sometimes it specifies too few bytes so I end up somewhere inside of the payload and I have to search further until I find the next file entry block. I can't find out, why it is so. If there are no public file specifications for the TIB format, is it possible that Acronis releases / sends me the specifications?
PS: Ich spreche auch Deutsch, falls mir jemand antworten möchte.
Thank you
Hmm, thank you for your fast reply but as I explicitely said, I don't want to install or boot something in order to extract my files:
I would like to be able to extract files from TIB containers without installing anything or booting with a bootable CD/DVD.
One reason is that I now have an iMac without optical drive and I didn't found any Mac OS X version of Acronis True Image on the website.
You aren't forced to install the Windows app. The ATI bootable Rescue Media can restore .tib backups.
I do not suppose that it is free? I can't boot it anyway... I just would like to be able to simply extract some of my files on different computers (not always mine) at any time. But I guess it is not possible at the moment.
Hmm, thank you for your fast reply but as I explicitely said, I don't want to install or boot something in order to extract my files:
I know what you said. If I adhered to your objection, there would have been no answer. Only Acronis True Image can open .tib archives. So, if you are adamant in your objection, you're out of luck.
I am not adamant - I simply do not see/have any good solution for my problem.
Again: I would like to extract some of my files from my TIB backup files. I need to do it on different computers and not all of them are mine (which is why I can't install the proprietary software on each of them). And I can't boot from anything because the new iMacs don't have any optical drive (and I'm not even sure if Acronis True Image supports the partition format used by Mac OS X or if it is able to extract files to such drives (does it?)).
I understand that this is proprietary software, but I just want to extract my files once and then I could backup them with another software - I don't need to create new TIB backup containers or change them in any way, which is why I asked for a "viewer" or "reader" without all the rest of the features.
But its ok.. this are somewhat old backups and I think I'll do without them. Thank you anyway.