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Re: How to set up a Rotating Incremental Backup?

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Thank you. Path is correct. Force-Rescan worked. Log is not available anymore, but I think I remember it to show: "0 files copied because no changes detected". I will check the next log and - if necessary - open a support-ticket.

But an idea came to my mind:
Incremental Backup works fine for continuously modified files like a daily changed project file. There you have access to all daily versions for the period of the backup (i.e. 7 days)

The problem with incremental backups was, that (unchanged) files that are accidentially deleted right before a full backup can not be restored even one day later.
So why not tell the software to regard a file deletion as a "file modification" and make it copy the last available version (from the backup) into the yesterday-folder. (I assume detection of file deletion is easy for the fast backup by comparison with the stored file structure)

Then you will have the same 7-day security and restore capability not only for file changes but also for file deletions.

Is this something that makes sense?

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