From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org back up
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:14:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121018001442.GA8886@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5775.1350502602@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net>
Hello Sanjib and others,
Sorry to continue with this terribly off-topic thread, but as the person
who wrote that snippet I felt I should clarify.
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 03:36:42PM -0400, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>
> > Sanjib Sikder [2012-10-18 00:32:00 +0530] wrote:
> >
> > > Even after 26th minute, there is no sign of the code in work. Is it that
> > > $HOME is not allowed and I need to give full path ?
> >
> > Ah, I thought that you'd run it from your personal crontab. So yes,
> > write paths from root's point of view.
> >
>
> o Quite apart from cron issues, the backup method in the script is
> fundamentally flawed in my opinion: iiuc, it flattens the hierarchy,
> so if you have org files with the same name in different directories,
> only *one* will be saved into the backup directory - hardly a reliable
> backup.
>
If you look at the original thread, my solution was a suggestion for the
specific case[1] of the original poster of that thread. This is _not_ a
reliable way to back up your files. As others have mentioned, a
distributed version control system like git, mercurial or bazar would be
well suited. However I personally believe in redundancy being the best
backup and use at least 3 ways to backup my org files: git, dropbox and
rsync to a different physical drive.
Footnotes:
[1] The OP wanted to aggregate all org files in his home area to a
specific backup directory.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-18 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-17 18:25 org back up Sanjib Sikder
2012-10-17 18:41 ` Teemu Likonen
2012-10-17 19:02 ` Sanjib Sikder
2012-10-17 19:08 ` Teemu Likonen
2012-10-17 19:26 ` Sanjib Sikder
2012-10-17 19:41 ` Teemu Likonen
2012-10-17 19:36 ` Nick Dokos
2012-10-17 19:38 ` Sanjib Sikder
2012-10-18 0:14 ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
2012-10-17 19:25 ` Achim Gratz
2012-10-17 20:05 ` Russell Adams
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