Naming backups

Discussion in 'Acronis True Image Product Line' started by CWBillow, Jan 7, 2006.

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  1. CWBillow

    CWBillow Registered Member

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    If I schedule a backup for every night at, say, 2am, how do deal with the naming of the files so that prior backups do not get overwritten?

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    Chuck Billow
     
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    Do you mean other than manually renaming them before the next scheduled backup runs?
     
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    I don't like the sound of that question... it sounds like a "No"...

    But yes, I was hoping...

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    Well, not really .... I seem to remember some other posts saying that in the Secure Zone, when it gets full, TI will remove the oldest to make room for the new backups. So if you have a large enough SZ, maybe the older backups would not matter.

    But perhaps someone else might know of a renaming method.
     
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    I'll keep my eyes open.... thanks.

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    The only way to do this is to write a script or program to do the renaming and run it after the backup, e.g. using TI's after-backup command feature.
     
  7. CWBillow

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    Ah... that's what I need to do... run the backup and then on exit a script or bat file could rename...

    Thanks,
    Chuck
     
  8. TheWeaz

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    You could set up seven jobs.
    MondayBackup to run at 2 on Mondays
    TuesdayBackup " " " " " Tuesdays
    etc.
    Really doesn't take too long to set them all up and this way a FridayBackup will not be written over until the next FridayBackup.
    I have 3 scheduled tasks, one on MonThur, one on TueFri and one for WedSat. Plus a weekly run only on Sundays.
     
  9. CWBillow

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    That's a good idea... thanks.

    I have another thread here about how I might copy a task so that I can assure sameness in the file selection...

    Ideas?

    Chuck
     
  10. TheWeaz

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    Well, different versions keep the scripts in different places, but Ver 8 build 937 stores them in
    C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Acronis\TrueImage\Scripts
    There is a "display name" parameter that could be changed but the script files themselves have very odd and cryptic names. I don't think you could name your copy just anything.
    I only do Full B/Us, so selecting files wasn't an issue for me.
     
  11. TheWeaz

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    OK, I opened a script file, changed the "display name" parameter to Testing Copied Script, changed the "backup uuid" parameter to Test Script and saved the file as TestScript.tib.tis
    I launched TI and sure enough it shows up. Now the question is, will it run? Might try later, but I don't have the time now if something goes south.
     
  12. CWBillow

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    I'll take a look... thanks.

    Chuck
     
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    I've done some work with .tis files; take a look at this thread...
     
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