Automating Acronis Backups using Windows Script files.

I know nothing about Windows Script files, but this is what I want to do.

1. Use the Acronis Scheduled Tasks to make an incremental backup weekly with the default name Mybackup.tib. Acronis will name the first file Mybackup1.tib. The next file will be named Mybackup2.tib, etc.

2. Once a month, on the first day of the month, rename the backup files to reflect the month. For example, on June 1, rename the following files:
Mybackup1.tib to Bkup-2005-05-1.tib
Mybackup2.tib to Bkup-2005-05-2.tib
Mybackup3.tib to Bkup-2005-05-3.tib
Mybackup4.tib to Bkup-2005-05-4.tib, etc.

3. If I could do this I would not have to change the Acronis Scheduled Tasks every month in order to make a full backup with limited number of incremental backups.

Does anyone have such a script written?

Ron Spruell

 

Code:

@       echo off

        for %%N in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do (
            if exist Mybackup%%N.tib ren Mybackup%%N.tib Bkup-%DATE:~3,7%-%%N.tib
        )

 

MiniMax -

It took me a while to determine that this was not a .vbs file, but instead a .bat file.

After I determined that, I could not get the date part of the command to work. The error I get is "The syntax of the command is incorrect".

Your date format must not be mm/dd/yyyy. I got the following to work.
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Acronis Backup file Rename.bat
@ echo off

for %%N in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do (if exist Mybackup%%N.tib Ren Mybackup%%N.tib Bkup-%DATE:~10,4%-%Date:~4,2%-%%N.tib)
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Now to get Microsoft Task Scheduler to run this file once a month.

Ron Spruell

 

I've got a similar thing going, called TiRoll. It *doesn't* rename anything, that was something I need for my purposes.

It uses NTFS reparse points to point Acronis to another backup directory each month. You can specify how many months must be kept, at the start of the new month, the oldest directory gets cleared.

Something like that you are looking for?

 

I am OLD and stuck in the world of BAT/CMD-scripts and C-programs

That's what you get from using such an illogical date format as mm/dd/yyyy. Learn Danish and you will be able to use a version of Windows where the date format is much more logical and suitable for automation and sorting: yyyy-mm-dd.

J/K

 

Here is a nice little utility that I have used for years to automate the changing of filenames. It is free and the source is available.

http://www.informatics-consulting.de/software/namedate.htm

 

Nice!