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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How To Convert an Acronis Backup File To a VMWare Image 2.) Start Acronis True Image
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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How To Convert an Acronis Backup File To a VMWare Image 3.) Select new image format, in our case the VMWare growable image.
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How To Convert an Acronis Backup File To a VMWare Image 5.) Select output destination and name. Click on Next button and wait until the conversion is
finished.
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How To Convert an Acronis Backup File To a VMWare Image 2.) Select Custon (advanced) option and click Next.
3.) Select Virtual Machine compatibility (virtual machine features) and click Next.
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How To Convert an Acronis Backup File To a VMWare Image 4.) Select I will install the operating system later option and click Next.
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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How To Convert an Acronis Backup File To a VMWare Image 6.) Set the virtual machine name and location and click Next.
Figure 15:VMware Workstation Virtual Machine Wizard set name and location
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How To Convert an Acronis Backup File To a VMWare Image 8.) Set memory size and click Next.
Figure 17: VMware Workstation Virtual Machine Wizard set memory size
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How To Convert an Acronis Backup File To a VMWare Image 10.) Select I/O controller type to BusLogic (Recommended) and click Next.
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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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How To Convert an Acronis Backup File To a VMWare Image 12.) You will get a review of the new virtual machine. You can click on Customize
Hardware if you want to make any changes. If everything looks good, then click on the Finish button.
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How To Convert an Acronis Backup File To a VMWare Image 13.) And that's it. Click on Power on this virtual machine option and wait until the system
boots up.
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