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How To Convert An Acronis Backup
How To Convert An Acronis Backup
Converting Acronis TIB backup file to Microsoft VHD Virtual Hard Drive file
Acronis backup solutions use proprietary disk image and archive format that has a TIB file
extension. Data in TIB files can be compressed, encrypted and protected with password.
First thing you need to do, is to convert the TIB image to VHD Virtual Hard Drive format.
Older versions of TIB files created by Acronis True Image version 10 and 11 (released in 2006
and 2007) can be converted by the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone directly to VMDK
disk format.
1.) Download and install the Acronis True Image to your computer. It is available as a trial
that works 30 days after installation.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/trueimage/
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3.) Click on the Tools and utilities tab. Scroll down in the list of tools and select Acronis
backup conversion option.
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4.) Select the backup archive from the table, or click on Browse button and select the .tib file
you want to convert and click on Next button.
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5.) Select location for new VHD file and click on Next button.
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Converting VHD Virtual Hard Drive to VMware VMDK Virtual Machine Disk format
VMware Workstation is not able to use the VHD disk format as a virtual drive for its virtual
machines, but with free StarWind V2V Image Converter you can simply transform a VHD disk
to a VMware VMDK file format.
1.) Download and install the StarWind V2V Image Converter.
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/converter
2.) Start V2V Image Converter and Click on the Next button. Select source file, in our case
the converted TIB backup.
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finished.
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3.) Select Virtual Machine compatibility (virtual machine features) and click Next.
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Figure 13: VMware Workstation Virtual Machine Wizard guest operating system
5.) Select guest operating system which is the same that was installed on the system from
where you created the Acronis TLB image and click Next.
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Figure 15:VMware Workstation Virtual Machine Wizard set name and location
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Figure 17: VMware Workstation Virtual Machine Wizard set memory size
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11.) Select Use an existing virtual disk option and select the .vmdk file from your hard
drive and click Next. You may get a message asking if you want to Convert existing
virtual disk to newer format?. You can either choose to Keep Existing Format or
Convert. If you convert to the latest format, then this image will only be able to be
opened in this version of VMWare or higher. If you choose to keep the existing format
then it is backwards compatible and will work in older versions of VMWare.
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Hardware if you want to make any changes. If everything looks good, then click on the
Finish button.
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boots up.
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