Example 2. Daily full backups with a date stamp

Consider the following scenario:

  • You want to perform a daily full backup of your machine.
  • You want to move older backups to a remote location by using a script.

In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan, specify MyMachine-[DATE] as the archive name, select the Name backup files using the archive name… check box, and select Full as the backup type.

Result:

  • The backups of January 1, 2011, January 2, 2011, and so on, are stored respectively as MyMachine-1.1.2011.tib, MyMachine-1.2.2011.tib, and so on.
  • Your script can move older backups based on the date stamp.

See also “The [Date] variable”.

Example 2. Daily full backups with a date stamp