TSGL: How to rename-renumber backups

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi,

> I'm wondering how important adding the date to the file name really is.

It's just one way to have more than a single file. Of course I can also 
renumber them 1 ... 5 or so, would be as nice a solution than the one with 
dates.

> If I
> understood your previous posts, passing the current file name to Acronis
> might be a problem.

Yep. Exactly so - there's no way AFAIK to do this, unfortunately. All I get 
is a backup with the same filename each time, the rest must be done using a 
script (this can be run automatically after the backup has finished).

Thanks
Tilman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H Davis" <hdavis1 at gmail.com>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: How to rename-renumber backups


> Tilman,
>
> I'm wondering how important adding the date to the file name really is.
> If you're viewing the several backup files using Windows Explorer the
> creation date is shown in the Date Modified column. You can even sort by
> the date by clicking the header of this column.
>
> Hopefully, you won't be looking at the back up files trying to figure
> out which is the most recent very often so if it takes a few extra
> seconds, no big deal.
>
> I presume your back up script will have some kind of counter that cycles
> from 1 to 5 and back to 1 again. To make a new back up you only have to
> delete any existing copy of the currently numbered back up file (which
> would be the oldest) and replace it with the current output from Acronis
> which would be the newest. You would have to be able to pass Acronis the
> current back up file name within the script so it can create the
> correctly numbered back up file directly without renaming. If I
> understood your previous posts, passing the current file name to Acronis
> might be a problem.
>
> H Davis
>