Backup without Deleting Moved or Deleted User Files

We have a group of users who have a unique backup need.
They want to ensure that if a file gets deleted on their end, that it will never be removed from the backup. Due to the nature of their department, a deleted file could go unoticed for a long period of time and by the time they notice the file is missing
it has already outlived our oldest date of retention.
Is there any type of backup/script/3rd Party solution anybody knows about that would just backup the files that have changed without removing missing files from the backup?
I appreciate it.

Hi,
Windows Server Backup automatically run incremental backups by saving only the data that has changed since the last backup but it will remove the files which are deleted before the last backup.
Since Microsoft does not provide third party software, you need to search if there is any software that can do this.
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