TSGL: How to rename-renumber backups

[H Davis]

Hi Tilman,

I'm not familiar with the detailed working of Acronis. Does it allow you 
to create several "profiles"? Files or internal named selections that 
allow you to specify the details of the kind of backup you want to do 
_including the name of the output file.
_
Also, can you run Acronis from a command line?

For example, can you enter something like Acronis /profile1 or Acronis 
/profile2, with each profile file containing different output file names?

H Davis

Tilman Brandl wrote:
> 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 
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tech Support Guy Mailing List
> http://www.tsgserver.com/list/
>
>   

-- 
H Davis   hdavis1 at gmail.com