My wife would like to be able to get to previous versions of her work. This would be similar to the Mac's time machine, but on a Windows XP laptop w/o access to wifi or external hard disk. The system must be self-contained since wifi is not always available and she can't be lugging around an external hard disk.
I was trying to figure out if I can rig up something that mirror n versions of documents in her my document folder to another folder. The software syncbackSE seems to fit that requirement, but I have never used it. Note that this is not really a backup issue but more of a revision control issue. The laptop gets backed up to an external drive when she gets home.
The documents are not really all that big. She doesn't even use more than 50Gb (including the OS and all apps), so space shouldn't be an issue.
Actually, i wonder why no one has bother to build some sort of versioning in the file system.
Would syncbackSE work? Is there a better idea?
Thanks
Paul
I was trying to figure out if I can rig up something that mirror n versions of documents in her my document folder to another folder. The software syncbackSE seems to fit that requirement, but I have never used it. Note that this is not really a backup issue but more of a revision control issue. The laptop gets backed up to an external drive when she gets home.
The documents are not really all that big. She doesn't even use more than 50Gb (including the OS and all apps), so space shouldn't be an issue.
Actually, i wonder why no one has bother to build some sort of versioning in the file system.
Would syncbackSE work? Is there a better idea?
Thanks
Paul
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