Ok you gotta help me out here guys. I made a full backup on the 18th of March. I made a "Differential backup" a week ago and now when I need it, it tells me that the archive is not valid!!!!!! It is a .tib extension though.

I can't even browse it... Please you have to help me out!!

What's the point of doing backup if you can restore them? Or at least I need to browse it!!!

Thanks a lot for ANY help whatsoever.

How does the 'Image Check' respond? If it fails, you might trying booting with TI boot disk and do an 'Image Check'.

I've used my TI vers. 8 since it first came out. Had vers. 6 and 7 before that and no problems with any of them.

Did you download (d/l) the program or do you have factory CD" If d/l, the file may have been corrupted while downloading. Try a new download.

HTH,
Bob

It's the downloaded one. But how come it works with my old backup and not the new one?

Also I tryed booting with the recovery cd, and it says it's corrupted or not a valid archive....:(

It's the downloaded one

Is it a trial version or did you purchased it and then received validation code? If it's a trial version, well....

i_XpUser

nah I have a valid registered copy. I have been using True image for 2 years now.

Is there a 3rd party software that would let me explore my backup?

For whatever reason, the 'invalid' image was apparently corrupted.

You might try making another image and use the 'Check Image' feature before you try to explore it.

If a second try is corrupt, I'd go with another d/l copy and see how that behaves.

Have you checked with Acronis Forum?

www.acronis.com/homecomputing/support/forum/

I'm not aware of any 3rd party s/w to explore an image.

Bob

Well I think Ill just give up on that one. I havent lost anything really important, just 3 weeks of "some files are not at their place"

I find that this is a stupid problem, and not being able to open the archive to at least view the file sucks. But, it is my fault, I just had to make sure it had worked fine, which I will do for sure from now on

Thanks everyone!

According to Acronis, there is a "bug" in True Image that causes True Image to display the "archive not valid" message whenever you attempt to restore an archive. If you are a registered user of True Image, you may download the latest build of True Image from Acronis's website.

Tried the trial version of TI 8 and doesnt work either. Out of luck I guess