TSGL: How to rename-renumber backups

[Tilman Brandl]

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