TSGL: How to rename-renumber backups

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi guys,

thanks for the additional software tips.

My problem has been solved meanwhile - I've adapted a vsb script to my 
needs.  The progs you mention however to me look pretty good !

Tilman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Orf Bartrop" <orf at internode.on.net>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: How to rename-renumber backups


> There is a free program called "The Rename".
> See:
>
> http://www.herve-thouzard.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=1
>
> Tilman Brandl wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> thanks for your valuable ideas!
>>
>> Funny enough I've never thought of a simple batch file! I'll look more
>> closely into this option.
>>
>> As to command-line usage and profiles in Acronis, as far as I can see, 
>> there
>> are no options like that. Your questions however made me think about 
>> other
>> solutions. I could create separate tasks with specific filenames + 
>> numbers
>> for backups at specific times ... not what I really wish since it could
>> complicate things considerably. System partition is not the only thing to
>> backup, I need more tasks for docs, emails and data. So - ending up with
>> maybe 16 tasks (lol) - will I remember what the idea behind all this was
>> in - say - 4 months from now?
>>
>> Thanks again
>> Tilman
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tilman Brandl" <tbrandl2 at chello.at>
>> To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <List at tsgserver.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:48 PM
>> Subject: TSGL: How to rename-renumber backups
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>maybe this has been discussed in the past, I just didn't find anything:
>>>I'm
>>>trying to find a way for renaming/renumbering backups.
>>>
>>>My Acronis is scheduled to create a system-partition backup /image each
>>>week
>>>or so ... Unfortunately, when creating that task, I can only give a 
>>>single
>>>filename for this, like system-full.tib  There's no way to add a date
>>>string
>>>of any kind ...
>>>
>>>What I would like is saving more than just a single backup, which means I
>>>would have to rename them. I've sofar done this manually, a process 
>>>that's
>>>easy to mess up or also to forget. As a standard there's for instance my
>>>1st
>>>backup named "system-full.tib"
>>>
>>>So after the backup has finished, I rename it into "system-full-1.tib"
>>>
>>>Thus after the next new backup I have new files
>>>   system-full.tib
>>>   system-full-1.tib
>>>
>>>This time I increment the numbers, renaming them into
>>>   system-full-1.tib
>>>   system-full-2.tib
>>>
>>>until after a few more backup runs (planned max.at 4 files) I have e.g.
>>>   system-full.tib
>>>   system-full-1.tib
>>>   system-full-2.tib
>>>   system-full-3.tib
>>>   system-full-4.tib
>>>
>>>My filemanager (totalcommander) can batch rename files - manually. Using 
>>>a
>>>stored pattern it's quite easy, but I mustn't forget to do it and need to
>>>click a few buttons. I would prefer to run a program before or after each
>>>backup run (a step which Acronis provides) that would simplify that whole
>>>process for me.
>>>
>>>Would there be an easy way to automate this?
>>>Sofar I've looked for software but didn't find anything better than what
>>>my
>>>filemanager can do - manually. I guess I would have to do some scripting,
>>>something I *could* do only with considerable effort (forgot most of what
>>>I
>>>knew of e.g. VB...). In the past I've played with AutoIt and PowerPro -
>>>both
>>>would allow me to create macros or scripts, but I hesitate to take the
>>>plunge.
>>>
>>>Any ideas appreciated
>>>Tilman