Rotating backup

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Rotating backup

Postby Titome on Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:56 am

Hi

I would like to make a rotating backup on my cloud.
In fact I would like to have n backups of my documents folder
By example if I need 3 days of backup their names should be :
- My Documents
- My Documents-1
- My Documents-2
And at each backup the "-2" sould be renamed "0", and the "-1" renamed "-2" and the "0" renamed "-1"
It's because if even a ransomware has arrived into my PC I could have at least a clean backup.

The names of the subfolders are unchanged (only the main folder is suffixed).
The bad solution to my problem could be to have a lot of similar profiles... I would avoid this solution !

On the MVS mainframes that was named GDG (Generation Data Group) and the names suffixed by (0) or (-1) or (-2).

I haven't find the way to do that with Syncovery. Maybe because I'm new in the usage....
Thank you for your help.
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Re: Rotating backup

Postby superflexible on Fri Sep 02, 2016 1:56 am

Hello,
you can add a variable to the destination path. For example,

MyDocuments/$WEEKDAY
or
MyDocuments/$2WEEKSDAYS

This will give you 7 or 14 rotating backup folders. Unfortunately we don't have any numbers in between.

See also
https://www.syncovery.com/variables/
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