Re: Subversion for backups?

[Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>]

Kyle Sexton schrieb:
> I've seen talk of people using subversion to keep track of and back up
> their org files.  Can someone give me an example of how they have this
> configured and how files are checked in/out from the repository?  Do
> you use a 'local' repository on the same machine and back that up
> remotely or check your files out to a remote subversion server?
> 
> I was going to do something simple like setting up rsnapshot to create
> backups of my org directory every X minutes, but subversion has me
> intrigued.
> 

I use subversion to backup and track my org files.
I have a server in my office running the subversion server.

Access is by port forwarding the subversion port via ssh - no matter 
being under windows (putty) or under Linux (ssh).
In this way I have my subversion server and repository virtually 
"local", that is acces is always via

svn://localhost/repository


I also track all my .emacs.d specific files, especially the org-mode 
files themselves as well as icicles and all kinds of libraries etc.
This makes it easy to update my whole emacs installation on any of my 3 
desktops and 3 notebooks.

rainer