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number of volume, if applicable (in the form of v#)
macros, if applicable (can be in any part of a name, for example,in the beginning or in the end)
If part of a name is not used (the backup has only one volume), this part is not added, for
example, if the backup does not have volumes, it will nothave the "v" suffix. The "b" and "s"
suffixes are always present.
Thus a backup name may look the following way (note that "24.05.2012" in the following example is
an optional macros):
my_documents_full_b3_s1_v1.24.05.2012.tib
my_documents_full_b3_s1_v2.24.05.2012.tib
my_documents_full_b3_s1_v3.24.05.2012.tib
my_documents_full_b3_s1_v4.24.05.2012.tib
my_documents_inc_b3_s2_v1.26.05.2012.tib
my_documents_inc_b3_s2_v2.26.05.2012.tib
my_documents_inc_b3_s2_v3.26.05.2012.tib
You may use numbers in the names of your backups, but this will not affect our internal numeration.
If you use our way of naming, like adding "full_b3_s5" to a name of your backup, the program adds
our attributes after your name, so the name would look as follows:
my_documents_full_b3_s1_full_b3_s1.tib
If you are creating a new backup, and there is already a file with the same name, the program does
not delete the old file, but adds to the new file the "-number" suffix, for example,
my_documents_full_b3_s4-1.tib.
In case of consolidation we rename consolidated backup making it first in the chain, and rename all
other archives so chain naming wouldn't broken:
For example, you have the following backup files:
backup_full_b1_s1.tib
backup_inc_b1_s2.tib
backup_inc_b1_s3.tib
backup_inc_b1_s4.tib
backup_inc_b1_s5.tib
backup_inc_b1_s6.tib
and want to consolidate the first three files. The resulting backup will be named as
backup_full_b1_s1.tib, because it becomes a full backup and the first in the chain. All other backups
will be named backup_inc_b1_s2.tib, backup_inc_b1_s3.tib, backup_inc_b1_s4.tib,
etc.
If you are cleaning up chains without consolidation by deleting whole chains, the program will not
rename all other backups, and will continue backup counting, not resetting it. For example, you had
backups:
