After reading a little bit about emacs backup functions I experimented
with customising emacs using the 'options' menu and succeeded in getting
the type of backups you were talking about.
It looks similar to yours (I even tried a version from the emacs
backup-wiki without success) and I don't know why it did not work
previously.
Anyhow thanks again for your pointer.
Regards
Johann
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