I suppose it depends what sort of work you do and how you do it, but I don't often delete things, when I do it's usually a batch of really ancient work. I've still got copies of stuff I wrote 9 years ago! Not much danger of accidentally deleting something important.
I don't have many occasions when I need an earlier version either. With some of my writing if I get bogged down and decide to do a serious re-write/edit I usually do a 'save as' and start a new version
-- Phil Thane
www.pthane.co.uk phil@pthane.co.uk 01767 449759 07582 750607 Twitter @pthane On Thursday, 21 December 2017 18:36:38 GMT Chris Green wrote:
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 10:23:20AM +0000, Phil Thane wrote:
Re Backups:
I have modest requirements (and budget) at home but running old cheap kit HDD fail is always a possibility. After try all sorts of solutions over the years, I've currently got an old PC in my shed running as a Nextcloud server. Every thing of importance on my desktop machine lives in /phil/Nextcloud so is automatically mirrored. Photos on my phone are automatically uploaded too. I know it's possible that the desktop crashes and the restore from Nextcloud fails but I think for home use one backup is enough.
What do you do if you delete a file by mistake? If the backup is mirroring your deskto system the file will be deleted there too.
I find that my main use for backups is to restore something I've deleted by mistake or to get back to an earlier version of something.