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How backup archive names are formed in Acronis True Image Home 2011

This article applies to:

• Acronis True Image Home 2011

Description

When you create a backup task in Acronis True Image Home 2011, the program will offer you a default name for archive, based on the data that you selected to back up. You can always specify a desired name by typing it in the Backup name field:

If you create a full backup followed by incremental or differential backups, incremental/differential archives attached to this full archive will have the same name with a number added:

If you create full backups with the same name in the same location, a number in brackets will be added to the backup name, e.g. MyBackup(1).tib, MyDocuments(2).tib.

If you create a custom backup scheme to create a full archive after two incremental backups, the backup archive names will look like this:

See also Acronis True Image Home 2011: Backup Schemes and Difference between Full, Incremental and Differential Backup.

You can also add variables the backup name (e.g. time and date of backup creation): click the down arrow in Destination field and click Browse:

In the Add drop-down field select the parameter or parameters that you want to add to the backup name:

You can also add these parameters to the backup name by typing them manually, e.g. MyBackup@date@.

Possible variables are:

• @date@ - backup creation date
• @time@ - backup creation time
• @user@ - current user name
• @machine@ - computer name
• @task@ - name of the task that includes the backup
• @exec@ -  the sequence number of the task run

More information

See also:

• Acronis True Image Home 2011: Disk and partition backup
• Acronis True Image Home 2011: File backup
• Acronis True Image Home 2011: Scheduling a Backup
• Acronis True Image Home 2011: Sorting "My backups" List