On Sunday 27 May 2007 07:17, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2007-05-27 at 14:45 +0200, jdd wrote:
It still doesn't help with, e.g, and application's "Save as..." function that overwrites an existing file, but it's something.
in this situation, no file can be retreived by no system (even windows).
That's not completely true... old Vax VMS file names had also a version number. You could have "file.ext;1", "...;2", etc, so you could go back and retrieve an older version of the file you were working with. Nice feature, except if the admin had limited the number of versions to two or three... which my teacher did.
And there's a even a very limited counterpart in the Gnu tools: The "cp" command's --backup and related options. You can also set up rdiff-backup to periodically make incremental snapshots of select portions of your file system. But of course, a real backup and archive system is an important ingredient in any data safety setup.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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