Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SV2I file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert SV2I to another file type
To convert SV2I Info files to another format, you need Acronis True Image or other Backup software.
Convert a file to SV2I
To convert other file formats to the "System Backup Index File" file type, you need software like Acronis True Image or a similar tool.
About SV2I files
An .SV2I file is a System Volume Backup Index file. It is primarily used by backup and disk imaging software like Acronis True Image and Symantec System Recovery. It acts as a map, containing XML formatted metadata that tracks hard drive properties, sectors, and multiple disk image parts across a storage drive. The main disadvantage of this format is its strict dependency on proprietary backup ecosystems. It does not contain your actual user data, photos, or documents. It only holds the instructions for the software to reconstruct a hard drive. Users often get frustrated when they cannot extract personal files from it, realizing too late that it requires legacy or expensive software to open. Because it is a closed, proprietary control file, standard online converters fail to process it. They look for media or document data that simply does not exist in this file. However, because the underlying format is usually XML, you can still inspect its contents. Drag and drop your file to convert.guru to see what it is, view its internal text structure, and convert it to XML or TXT if supported.
Convert.Guru analyzes your SV2I file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert SV2I file to BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7Z, RAR or ISO, you can use Acronis True Image or similar software from the "Backup Volume Indexing" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SNAPSHOT, OLD, IMG, RESTORE, ISO, COPY, VMDK, TMP, VHD, BAK, ARCHIVE or BACKUP files to SV2I, try Acronis True Image or another comparable tool in the "Backup Volume Indexing" category.
The SV2I Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SV2I converter.