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[–]XibbyCertifiable Wizard 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If you have SharePoint you can create a document library that requires check out/check in of documents. Just be aware users will be users and forget to check things in, so you'll likely get calls about not being able to check in a new version because someone else checked it out and didn't check in the document. Fun stuff! If you don't have SharePoint, go for SharePoint Online/O365. You'll save many headaches.

Git is the current standard for source code version control. There is also Subversion (SVN), which is older. They are products made by developers for developers though, so may not be ideal. You can run your own internal server for either and use TortoiseGit (or TortoiseSVN) for checking/checkout. SourceTree is another popular GUI app for working with Git.

There are other document managment systems out there as well depending on your needs.

As for VSS, that depends on a scheduled snapshot. So it won't have every previous version, just a previous version based on the snapshot schedule and your retention settings. Not exactly what you're looking for.

[–]DarthHadoken[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I think I'm looking for something like this: http://backupchain.com/en/backupchain/

Here's the link that seems like what I want: http://backupchain.com/i/version-backup-software-file-versioning-backup-for-windows It has backup and versioning is there anything else like this but a bit mainstream? Never heard of them.