well I'm going to  use timeshift->rsync.
I just created  a back up to sdc but nothing is available to restore. Is
there a secret to it?

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 12:30 PM Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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>
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, 14:57 Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> 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
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