Select the date and time of the virtual image you want to use.īear in mind the virtual disk is read-only, so you cannot accidentally overwrite or delete any files. With incremental backups, you avoid disk images that can contain corrupted file versions. For example, it can create complete images and incremental images and builds the virtual disk using incremental backups. 1Īcronis True Image has several additional features not usually found in other disk-imaging backup software. In Acronis True Image, you can do almost anything with this 'virtual disk drive' except add or change files on the disk. As far as your computer is concerned, this disk image is a disk drive. The image is presented as a virtual drive, complete with its own drive letter. Open a virtual disk by choosing the Explore Image command in the tools menu and select the disk image you want to use. This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Al Taylor.Explore full-image backup residing on a virtual disk tib file format.)ĭoes this any of this have any applicability to your situation? (FWIW, it is not possible to “retro” 2020 and force it to use the older. This is because I purchased an upgrade to 2020 not knowing about the “new” format and I have decided NOT to use it based on the serious limitations of the new format. There is nothing in the FAQs about changes/reductions to image sizes, and I don’t have any personal experience regarding it.

tibx format (one might want to note the very serious “limitations” stated in the third FAQ). I ask this because I note that TI 2020 no longer uses the file format which former versions used having a “.tib” suffix, but instead 2020 now uses solely a format with a “.tibx” suffix. I’m especially wondering if you might have upgraded to TI 2020. Curious what version you used which produced the “bigger-sized image(s)” and if you used the same version for the return to the smaller size.

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