Appending Date and/or Time to Acronis 2020 Backup file name?
Hey Gang. I'm currently running Acronis 2020 with differential backups, and would like to get Acronis 2020 to automatically append the date to the file name of my Acronis backup files. You used to be able to do this by adding @date@ to the archive file name when creating a backup task. But apparently that option has been removed for several years now.
I did a brief search of the Acronis forms, and found a few threads that describe how to modify the Acronis backup script in order to cause it to automatically append the date, time, or other info to the backup filename. Such as this post:
Acronis-true-image-2015-forum: How-stamp-date-time-backup-file-name
There are no occurrences of "@task@" in my Acronis 2020 script when i do a search...just the name of the Archive itself "(C) Windows_10.tibx"
Any suggestions/advice greatly appreciated!
Thx!
Rastamanx, in the script, go to <volumes_locations> and in the second row you can add @date@. You have to add it manually, none of them are there by default.
My second row looks like this:
<volume_location partition_id="\local\hd_ev\vol_guid(E8327E364D44EA23E06E0A8BB2655DDD)" uri="E:\Lagret\ZZ_Backup\@task@_@date@_@time@.tib" volume_id="0" />
1. Launch TI2020
2. Go to ACTIVE PROTECTION and set it to off
3. Close TI2020
4. Open the script and add the value/s you want
5. Close and save the script
6. Launch TI2020 and enable ACTIVE PROTECTION
7. Make the backup
This will give me the following results as you can see in the attached image.
Roger, sorry but your update will only apply to Files & Folders backup files that still use .tib format backup files in ATI 2020, not to Disks & Partitions backup files now using .tibx format files.
Steve, it works here. I saw a difference when you mentioned it but here is the trick that works here:
1. Create a new Disc and partitions job in TI2020.
2. When done, choose to backup Later instead of Back up now.
3. Go to ACTIVE PROTECTION and set it to off
4. Close TI2020
5. Open the script and add the value/s you want (See the attached image)
6. Close and save the script
7. Launch TI2020 and enable ACTIVE PROTECTION
8. Make the backup
By doing this the .tibx file will get the name i desire. :)
Roger, what disk backup schemes have you tried this with? (Full, Incremental, Differential)
Only with full backups, so i don´t know what to expect from the other alternatives.
Ok, will need to do some testing with Incremental & Differential and see what happens with those given the new dependencies brought in for .tibx files.
Results of some testing after creating new backups using @task@_@date@_@time@ when modifying the associated script .tib.tis files.
All 3 types of backup (Inc, Diff & Full) ran without showing any error and produced an initial full backup file using the task name, date and time that the backup ran.
For Inc files, subsequent files are embedded / consolidated within the single .tibx file and initially looked as if they were following the same naming convention, but as more backups were made the task name disappeared from the inc file names shown when the .tibx was opened!
For the above image, the task name = "Inc with date time" but three of the embedded inc files don't show that task name!
For Diff and Full backup files, these only apply the variable values on the first file then use that same name with numeric suffices afterwards.
The above findings do not fill me with any confidence that making these changes will satisfy users who are used to how this has worked in earlier versions for .tib files.
However, the killer here with making these changes is the following error when any attempt is made to Validate the files for any of these modified backup tasks!
The second image was given after clicking on 'Ignore this version'.
Note: the same error is given for the Inc and Diff backup tasks asking for the missing Full file!!!