If there was a backup in play in Renaissance Man, then the Doctor upon returning from his away mission should have met himself and they should have argued about how to proceed until their "histories" were integrated and one of them was packed away in that little box... Which was, by the way, the penultimate episode.
Although.
If he'd just rebooted the Equinox EMH back to factory settings instead of deleting it completely, MURDERING "it", then that could have been easily been rejiggered into a back up.
besides all the back up really would have been would have been B'Elanna's betatest of a mobile emitter constructed with 24th century technology after studying that impossibly magic bastard they stole from the 29th century.
Redshirt, you're three pages behind the argument at hand.
Although.
If he'd just rebooted the Equinox EMH back to factory settings instead of deleting it completely, MURDERING "it", then that could have been easily been rejiggered into a back up.
besides all the back up really would have been would have been B'Elanna's betatest of a mobile emitter constructed with 24th century technology after studying that impossibly magic bastard they stole from the 29th century.
Redshirt, you're three pages behind the argument at hand.