Description
Archive 12 format is a main archive type for Acronis Backup 12.5. It is used to back up any data, including mobile data, applications, application-aware backup, MacOS, Oracle DB etc
It is a single .tibx file for each backup chain: Full or Differential + all Incremental files that depend on it
Metadata is stored inside the archive, checksummed and verified (there is no separate xml file for metadata).
Acronis True Image 2020 introduced a new backup format - .tibx, which is even more reliable and convenient. The .tibx format is used for disk backups created to internal drives, external drives, network storage.
One of the main changes in this new backup format is that the .tibx format saves full and differential backup versions as separate files, while incremental backup versions are automatically merged into their base full backups.
Description
This article provides answers to frequent questions about new backup format introduced in Acronis True Image 2020, also known as .tibx backups.
Q: When does Acronis True Image 2020/2021 create backups in new format?
A: See Acronis True Image 2020: tib and tibx backup format usage
Recent versions of Acronis True Image have brought a new backup format: tibx. The format of local backups can be easily figured out by looking at the backup file's name extension, whether it is the new .tibx or older .tib.
If the backup is stored in Acronis Cloud, the product's user interface does not display the used format anywhere and does not allow to change it. This article explains how to find out the format of backup, stored in Acronis Cloud.
In the list of backups, you see one or more archives that have not user-fiendly names.
If you attempt to browse this archive, e.g. check the recovery points, you receive an error message:
Failed to resolve the backup.
Failed to open the backup archive by the ID.
User wants to manually delete a .tib/.tibx backup archive in Explorer, or to modify Acronis configuration files, e.g. to adjust settings of alerts or change default ports for services.
Operation fails with “Access denied” error:
Folder access denied
You need permission to perform this action
Access to Acronis files may be denied by Acronis Self-Protection.
Acronis True Image 2020 introduced a new backup format - .tibx, which is even more reliable and convenient. The .tibx format is used for disk backups created to internal drives, external drives, network storage.
This article describes how .tibx archives look and behave outside of Acronis True Image interface.
A local .tibx file can contain:
| Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office | Acronis True Image 2021 | Acronis True Image 2020 | |
| Convert .tibx backups to .vhd(x) | YES | YES | NO |
You have a backup archive (TIBX) and operations with it (either continuing to back up to it, or restoring/extracting data from it) fail with errors that the archive is corrupted.
Goal: You want to run diagnosis (validate) the archive to see what is damaged in it and to what extent, and, if possible, you want to repair the archive (at least partially).
