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However this is only available on local drives and offers +little control on how to store and how long to keep the files. +FreeFileSync therefore has an additional option, "Versioning".</FONT></P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR> +</P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>1. +Keep all versions of old files</B></FONT></P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">In +synchronization settings set both deletion handling and naming +convention to "<B>Versioning</B>". FreeFileSync will move +deleted files into the provided folder and add a time stamp to each +file name. The structure of the synchronized folders is preserved so +that old versions of a file can be conveniently accessed via a file +browser.</FONT></P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example +</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">(A +file "Folder\File.txt" was updated three times and old +versions were moved to folder "C:\Revisions")</SPAN></FONT></P> +<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.32cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen1" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6"> + <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"> + <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">C:\Revisions\Folder\File.txt + </FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12 + 111111</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">.txt<BR>C:\Revisions\Folder\File.txt + </FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12 + 122222</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">.txt<BR>C:\Revisions\Folder\File.txt + </FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12 133333</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">.txt</FONT></FONT></P> +</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR> +</P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR> +</P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>2. +Save only most recent version</B></FONT></P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Set +deletion handling to "Versioning" and naming convention to +"<B>Replace</B>". Deleted files will be moved to the +specified folder without any decoration and will replace already +existing older versions.</FONT></P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR> +</P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>3. +Save versions at certain intervals</B></FONT></P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">With +naming convention "</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Replace</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">" +it's possible to refine the granularity of versions to keep by adding +<A HREF="Macros.html">macros</A> to the versioning folder path. For +example you can save deleted files on a per sync session basis by +adding the </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>%timestamp%</B></FONT> +<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">macro:</FONT></P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example +</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">(Using +the dynamically generated folder name "C:\Revisions\</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">%timestamp%</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">")</SPAN></FONT></P> +<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.32cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen2" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6"> + <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"> + <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">C:\Revisions\</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12 + 111111</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">\Folder\File.txt<BR>C:\Revisions\</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12 + 122222</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">\Folder\File.txt<BR>C:\Revisions\</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>2012-12-12 + 133333</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">\Folder\File.txt</FONT></FONT></P> +</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR> +</P> +<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">This +allows for a simple manual undo by moving the deleted files from the +last synchronization session back to their original folders. Other +macros like </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>%date%</B></FONT> +<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">or </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>%weekday%</B></FONT> +<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">can be used to reduce the granularity +to days and weeks.</FONT></P> +</BODY> +</HTML>
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