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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox,comp.misc
Subject: Re: 30 Years Of Netscape
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 23:05:12 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 15:48:42 -0500, knuttle wrote:

> On 11/06/2024 1:54 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> To guard against this, you need to maintain multiple generations of
>> backup, say, going back 7 days.
>
> I use Syncback free, to do my syncs.  When it finds differences it gives
> the user a list of files that are different and the user decides what
> files to copy where.

I use rsync. I set up an automatic system for one client which did backups 
twice daily going back 14 days. With careful filtering of less important 
files, it didn’t take up much more space than the original volume it was 
backing up.

rsync has this need feature where you can do an incremental backup that 
looks just like a full backup for restoration purposes. That is, it 
dedupes files which haven’t changed since the previous backup.