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I am using the latest version of TI 2012 & W7 Home. Scheduled full backups are working fine and overwriting the previous file in the folder. These .tif files have todays full date appended to the file name. However, the file immediately subordinate to the .tif file, which contains the tree to examine the contents of the image and did not exist in TI 2011 [sorry - I do not what this tree is called], always has 2012-04-9 as the date which is appended. It should have a date identical to that on the .tif file. This also happens to be the date the job was created. When I edit the job I find no place to add the date. I am sure this has a simple answer but it is avoiding me. Attached is .jpg of the file structure in WE.

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Greetings,
You are able to add or edit these parameters when creating or editing a Disk Back Up task.

To do so, click the down arrow to the right of the Destination and click Browse.... Select the items you want to add in the right field of the File name line:
add date - the backup creation date will be added
add time - the backup creation time will be added
add user name - the current user name will be added
add machine name - the computer name will be added
add task name - the name of the task that includes the backup will be added
add task run number - the sequence number of the task run will be added

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The TrueImage data base has become confused--perhaps it was edited.
Anyway, you will need to stop your existing task and create a new task. Point the new task to a new empty folder not containing other backup files.

Not sure exactly what type backup scheme you are using but the link below shows examples of Full, Inc or Dif and the examples are listed in the figures 11-xx on the attachment. Change the 6 and 4 data to meet your own needs.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705

As "shadowsports" has indicated, you can add the date to the backup file name by adding
@date@_
to the file name such as
Yourbackupname_@date@_.tib

When the explorer folder is in view detail mode, the date and time of backup is always there anyways.