example 3

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Someone else changed a file before I synced my data

Christian is a salesman. He is working on a huge proposal together with his colleagues from product management and development. They agreed to use a common directory on the server named "\\OurServer\customers\Miller&Miller\proposals\NewSystem\" . New versions of the proposal file “MillersNewSystem.doc” will be versioned by adding numbers. Being under timer pressure with his proposal Christian decides to work on the proposal. over the weekend. As always he uses an

“xcopy \\OurServer\customers\Miller&Miller\proposals\NewSystem\*.* C:\MyData\Millers\*.* /S /D /Y /C
“xcopy C:\MyData\Millers\*.* \\OurServer\customers\Miller&Miller\proposals\NewSystem\*.* /S /D /Y /C

to copy the latest documents to his laptop. “MillersNewSystem017.doc” is among the files. He spends hours working on the proposal and saves it as “MillersNewSystem018.doc” The following Monday Christian checks files in and out using the very same xcopy statements. Unfortunately one of the colleagues opened “MillersNewSystem017.doc” early on Monday to type in some remarks and saved the document as “MillersNewSystem018.doc”. This “MillersNewSystem018.doc” is more recent as Christians when Christian applies the xcopies. Arrgh ... his file and all the work is gone.

But Christian told rReplikator to store versions of “C:\MyData” under “C:\Savers\MyData\".
Hhe will find a file “MillersNewSystem017 [2003-10-25 21-32-16].doc” and a file “MillersNewSystem018 [2003-10-26 22-19-31.doc”, the latter one being his Sunday evening version.

Well, that did save a lot of work and quarrels.