Subject: bug#71074: 29.3; When doing a backup, the file is missing during interactive questions

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 15:42:26 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 15:12:05 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> 
> So I don't see how we could significantly change this situation
> without losing very useful features, and therefore I think
> backup-by-copying is the best solution we can provide in such cases.

Actually, an alternative is to customize file-precious-flag to a
non-nil value.