Acronis breaks up TIB files.

I am using Acronis 9 together with a USB Lacie 250 gig usb external drive. I would like to have one TIB file but for some reason many TIB files are created despite the fact that I have not set the file size feature. On my other USB drive only one TIB file is created.

Would appreciate any ideas on what is the problem.

Hanss, Zurich, Switzerland

 

Check the file system of the USB drive. If it is FAT, 4GB is the largest file it will handle. No matter what you tell TI, the files will be split. It is not a problem with TI.

 

As the Weaz said, it's the 4GB FAT32 file size limit. If you want a single file, you will have to reformat/convert the drive to NTFS.

One advantage of the 4GB file limit is that you can always copy the image to DVDs albeit not as efficiently as splitting at 1492MB or 2240MB which uses and additional 0.38GB per DVD.

 

Code:

To convert a volume to NTFS from the command prompt

1.
Open Command Prompt. Click Start, 
point to All Programs, point to Accessories, 
and then click Command Prompt.

2.
In the command prompt window, type: convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs 

For example, typing convert D: /fs:ntfs would format drive D: with the ntfs format. 
You can convert FAT or FAT32 volumes to NTFS with this command.

Important  Once you convert a drive or partition to NTFS, 
you cannot simply convert it back to FAT or FAT32. 
You will need to reformat the drive or partition which will erase all data, 
including programs and personal files, on the partition.