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. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
