How to use RAR or ZIP to rename replaced files when extracting

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Published on 2010-06-16T01:34:15Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 1:43 UTC
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I wish to extract files using RAR or ZIP but I need to be able to rename the files being replaced so that there is a copy of the previous version in case something goes wrong.

Couldn't see any options in WinRAR to do this.

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