TSGL: How to rename-renumber backups

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi,

> You are saying that ACRONIS does NOT track and number backups? I was 
> thinking of migrating
> to something more modern than Powerquest's Drive Image 7.0. DI DOES track 
> and number
> backups.

yes, I'm saying this ;-)

If you consider moving to Acronis, you could look at their website and maybe 
even Support or the forum there and try to find out whether other (newer) 
versions have this feature or not.

I'm using True Image Home 10 and couldn't find anything related there. My 
script however does it's job quite well, so everything is fine ... for me.

Tilman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "HBCANON" <hbcanon at homemail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: TSGL: How to rename-renumber backups


> HBCanon
> Geneva, FL
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On 
> Behalf Of Tilman
> Brandl
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 07:17
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> Subject: Re: TSGL: How to rename-renumber backups
>
> 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