<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, at 6:50 PM, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="auto"><div>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. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I didn't set up my backup software until after I had a catastrophic data loss.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Welcome to the club! <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For my Linux data I do daily rsync with my backup server. The backup sends it's data to the cloud.<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>--<br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>Alexander<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro<br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, 14:57 Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>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?<br></div><div>Mike<br></div></div></div><div>---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div> PLUG-discuss mailing list: <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br></div><div> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div> <a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br></div></blockquote></div><div>---------------------------------------------------<br></div><div>PLUG-discuss mailing list: <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br></div><div>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br></div><div><a href="https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss">https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>