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Profile Settings - Versioning

Keep Multiple Backup Versions

When files on one side are replaced by newer versions from the other, this software can keep the older versions by renaming them. You can specify how many backup versions to keep.

It is recommended that you use the Filename Encoding feature for keeping multiple backup versions. However, since this means that all filenames are encoded, you may prefer not to use it.

If you don't use Filename Encoding, then there is an alternate naming scheme where only the older backup versions are renamed. For example, a file named letter.doc would be renamed to letter.$1$.doc. The next older version would be letter.$2$.doc, and so forth.

When not using Filename Encoding, older versions can be moved into a separate folder. This is not recommended because it is currently not supported by the Restore Wizard, so you'd have to get the older versions from the separate folders manually.

Filename Encoding - On Right Side, Put Timestamp Into File Names

(Preserves Timestamp on FTP Sites)

Filename Encoding is the recommended way to do a versioning backup as well as preserve the timestamps on FTP sites that don't accept timestamps.

Putting the timestamp into the file names can serve two purposes when backing up data:

- It enables FTP sites to serve as a fully transparent side for the synchronization, because the time stamp will be shown fully correct in future runs of the profile. The mangled filename will be decoded by this software and the original filename will be shown with the correct timestamp. Unfortunately, FTP servers don't allow manipulations of the timestamp so that without this setting, the FTP site would always show the timestamp of the date of the backup - not the original timestamp of the file itself.
- To keep multiple versions of the same file on the destination, this feature may be useful.

See also Versioning / Filename Encoding on our web site.

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