Can I move location (Disk Drive) of .TIB file and still use it?
I created my backup of a partition on a USB connected drive before I installed a second hard drive on my system. Can I simply move the .tib file to the second hard drive which will be its permanent location, and use it to recover from there? If this is possible, then can I simply keep a copy of a family member's .tib file on my computer for "safe keeping" just in case something happens to their recovery hard drive partition? I'm thinking I'd email or ftp it to them if necessary.
Thanks!


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No! No! No! This is not the answer! Once you have deleted the backup, the copy still will NOT validate. I think the simple answer would have been to do the move via the Acronis software as it seems to allow this although it is not immediately obvious. Now I am going to copy the backup back to it's original location and try to validate and move it via Acronis. Because it is called "True Image" I thought they meant that's what it was, not a proprietary format file. I was copying to the new drive so I can put it into my laptop and boot from it, before my old drive dies.
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Donald,
There are several ways to move .TIB files and have the software re-detect a back up image. While it can be helpful to perform the task in ATI, a back up image can be re-added manually if necessary. The methods used can depend on the version of ATI in use, so this is not an absolute. Like all software, ATI uses its own proprietary file format (.TIB) for its back up images.
Since you mentioned a laptop... I would suggest watching the following video in the Acronis knowledge base. This refers to 2016, but the premise is applicable to older versions. It provides detailed steps for imaging a drive, and restoring this image to a new disk in your laptop. The key steps are (use acronis boot media, image the source - create a full disk image, place destination drive in laptop and restore to this disk.)
https://kb.acronis.com/content/2931
Validation, the location of a .TIB file does not affect its ability to validate. If the .TIB file is a incremental or differential and part of a chain or slice, the full disk image and all previous back ups in the chain must be present for validation to occur.
If your disk is failing, I would suggest attempting to copy your data (or as much as you can get) off the disk before attempting a image or clone operation. Imaging and restoring a failing drive can migrate issues from the old disk to the new one. Protecting the data would be my first concern.
Last, MVP Pat L has many years experience using the ATI.
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