218
Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010
When using this variable, the first backup of a new day will be a full backup. Before creating the next
full backup, the software deletes all backups taken earlier that day. Backups taken before that day
are kept. This means you can store multiple full backups with or without incremental ones, but no
more than one full backup per day. You can sort the backups by date, copy, move, delete the
backups manually or by using a script.
The date format is
m
.
d
.
yyyy
. For example, it is 1.31.2011 for January 31, 2011. (Note absence of
leading zeros.)
You can place this variable anywhere in the archive name. You can use both lowercase and
uppercase letters in this variable.
Examples
Example 1. Suppose that you perform incremental backups twice a day (at midnight and noon) for
two days, starting on January 31, 2011. If the archive name is MyArchive-[DATE]-, here is the list of
backup files after day two:
MyArchive-1.31.2011-.tib (full, created on January 31 at midnight)
MyArchive-1.31.2011-2.tib (incremental, created on January 31 at noon)
MyArchive-2.1.2011-.tib (full, created on February 1 at midnight)
MyArchive-2.1.2011-2.tib (incremental, created on February 1 at noon)
Example 2. Suppose that you perform full backups, with the same schedule and archive name as in
the previous example. Then, the list of backup files after day two is the following:
MyArchive-1.31.2011-.tib (full, created on January 31 at noon)
MyArchive-2.1.2011-.tib (full, created on February 1 at noon)
This is because the full backups created at midnight were replaced by new full backups of the same
day.
6.2.9.3
Backup splitting and simplified file naming
When a backup is split according to backup splitting (p. 117) settings, the same indexing is used to
also name parts of the backup. The file name for the next backup will have the next available index.
For example, suppose that the first backup of the archive MyData has been split in two parts. Then,
the file names for this backup are MyData1.tib and MyData2.tib. The second backup (supposing that
it is not split) will be named MyData3.tib.
6.2.10
Access credentials for archive location
Specify credentials required for access to the location where the backup archive will be stored. The
user whose name is specified will be considered as the archive owner.
To specify credentials
1.
Select one of the following:
Use the plan's credentials
The program will access the source data using the credentials of the backup plan account
specified in the General section.
Use the following credentials
