If we're talking about backups, along with taking actual backups I use BTRFS and use snapper to take a snapshot of my filesystem hourly, keeping 3 of the latest daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups. So if I did mess up something I should be able to find an appropriate backup depending on how long ago it was.
On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, at 6:50 PM, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Nope. Whatever was, is no more. Without sophisticated backup software that is > taking daily or hourly snapshots, after a successful save, the program almost > certainly isn't saving any meaningful way to back out any changes. > > I didn't set up my backup software until after I had a catastrophic data loss. > > Welcome to the club! > > I use Acronis Data backup. It takes hourly snapshots of my important folders, > and stores the diffs, but it won't take an empty diff, so it's only storing > changes. > > For my Linux data I do daily rsync with my backup server. The backup sends > it's data to the cloud. > > -- > Thanks, > Alexander > > Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, 14:57 Michael via PLUG-discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm in trouble. I really need to go back to an earlier version of my calc >> document. Chat gpt wasn't any help. Does anyone here know if it is possible? >> Mike >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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