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Syncthing (and probably other sync utilities) allow versioning and keeping deleted files in separate directory.



Yup, which are great for noticing you deleted a file accidentally, before you went to lunch. But for anything more than very simple, recent restoration, versioning is not a backup. It (can/does) mangle file names, metadata, folder structure and can be a nightmare to perform larger restores with. Versions are a convenience.




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