TSGL: How to rename-renumber backups

[Tilman Brandl]

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