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From: knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: 30 Years Of Netscape
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 15:48:42 -0500
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On 11/06/2024 1:54 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 06:56:02 -0500, knuttle wrote:
> 
>> The computers are synced so they have the same files, and the Desktop is
>> backed up to the external drive.   While in some people eyes this is not
>> a backup as all are in the same house, but it is a back up as a file can
>> not be deleted or accidentally saved by mouse dribble.
> 
> But the syncing will delete the file on the backup as well, the next time
> it runs.
> 
> 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.  Nothing is ever lost completely, unless the user 
messes up.

With Syncback Free, the files as stored under the unamended files names, 
so if there is a difference, the file is saved under the same name on 
both computes with user instructions.

Using Syncback Free, you can do a back up. In the backup mode, the files 
are identified with date and time to distinguish them.