[Gimp-user] Make timestamped backups as one overwrites image with CTL-S?

[Dave <noreply nohost com>]

I've begun learning & using Gimp. I figured I may as well start with the 
newest version of Gimp that I could find so I am using Partha's build: 
win7x64, v2.9.5, commit 14795c1.

I should have been more careful but I ignored the "Unstable Development 
Version" warning which I get when I start Gimp. I lost quite a bit of 
work after getting some error messages about not being able to read swap 
or something. A save (CTL-S) seemed to work, so I continued. It turns 
out the image is corrupted.

Question: many editors have an option to make a backup of the item being 
edited before writing over the original. I know I could do a "save as" 
but that is rather tedious as I would have to type a name each time. Is 
there any option or extension that would save a time stamped backup 
before overwriting the original when I use CTL-S to save my progress?

I would think this would be a very useful option. I was very surprised 
to find that I could accidentally move the background layer. It seems to 
me that it is far too easy to accidentally do something (because I 
forgot to click the right tool), not notice and then save over my original.

As an aside, is there something I could put on the windows shortcut that 
would save a log of error messages? The popup said something about 
writing to stderr, but that does not exist on windows when I start via 
the shortcut link.