Acronis12 no longer overwrites existing archives

I thought I would share my work-around that I wrote to solve this bug in Acronis True Image 12.
I had opened a support call with Acronis on this in January 2012:

“I need Acronis2012 to overwrite the previous archive file. This worked fine in version 2010. Since the upgrade it is creating another archive file with a "2" on the end. Example: One of my backups is called Share_Users. Acronis12 now creates another one called Share_Users2. Setting the automatic cleanup to 1 version does not work. How do I have the software overwrite the existing archive? “

I did not get a working solution from support, so I created a batch script and added some code to my PERL maintenance script. The PERL script moves my five backup files from the previous week to a different folder. This is run from the Acronis Pre-Post Commands section. It is in the PRE command so it runs before the archive is started.

PERL script Code: (Note: The “X” drive is where I store the weeks backups)
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# MOVE ORIGINAL .tib FILES TO DIFFERENT DIRECTORY DUE TO ACRONIS BUG!
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`move /Y X:\windows7.tib X:\windows7`;
`move /Y X:\Pdrive.tib X:\Pdrive`;
`move /Y X:\Projects_nas.tib X:\Projects_nas`;
`move /Y X:\Downloads_Media.tib X:\Downloads_Media`;
`move /Y X:\Share_Users.tib X:\Share_Users`;

The Windows Batch script is run during my weekly maintenance routine. It will delete the prior weeks .tib file.

Windows BAT file Code:
DEL /Q X:\windows7\windows7.tib

Hope this can help someone else who’s having the problem. From what I’ve seen in the forum, this bug has been around since the 2011 version.