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Backups with dates

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Good evening everyone.

Regularly, I back up my PC.

Unfortunately, new files and folders overwrite the previous ones. Is there a way to avoid this problem, for example by saving the new files with the date or an index?

Thank you

(On Windows 11)

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    brucine Posted messages 25314 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 197
     

    Hello,

    No one says with what you do them or what is saved (data, system images...); the question only applies to a full backup, not incremental.

    We can’t keep all backups either, they would take enormous space and the oldest ones would become useless.

    Depending on the software or just in a batch file, it’s relatively easy to implement by giving an timestamped variable name to the backup and, for example, by controlling that only the last 3 are kept (so the batch file deletes the oldest after the most recent succeeds).

    But you would need to specify what you are using to proceed.

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