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<H3 CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Backup strategies</FONT></H3>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>1.
Full backup with versioning of old files</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">In
synchronization settings select and specify a "User-defined
directory" for deletion handling. FreeFileSync will place files
that have been deleted or overwritten with newer versions into
corresponding time-stamped sub directories. This provides a
space-optimized way to retain all older versions of files while the
most recent ones are available in main source and target directories.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>2.
Full backup to different target directories</B></FONT></P>
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directory input fields may contain environment variables and special
macros that are expanded during synchronization. This allows for
complete backups into different target directories.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example:</B></FONT></P>
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directory "C:\Source" requires a daily backup into a
time-stamped target directory like "C:\Target_2009-10-08".
Base directories are set up accordingly:</FONT></P>
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folder: "<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">C:\Source</FONT>"<BR>Target
folder: "<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">C:\Target_%date%</FONT>"</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Latter
will be interactively replaced with the current date during
synchronization. In order to further automate this process, you can
create a *.ffs_batch file with this configuration and choose "<I>ignore
errors</I>" to avoid the warning that target directory is not
(yet) existing.</FONT></P>
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</FONT>current time, format [hhmmss], e. g. "<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">201340</FONT>"<BR><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">%date% -
</FONT>current date, e. g. "<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">2010-07-13</FONT>"<BR><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">%week% -
</FONT>calendar week, e. g. "<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">28</FONT>"<BR><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">%month% -
</FONT>current month, e. g. "<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">July</FONT>"<BR><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">%year% -
</FONT>current year, e. g. "<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">2010</FONT>"</FONT></P>
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