From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa Subject: Backuping org with git, cron and Dropbox Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 00:29:53 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGPEC-0001v2-SE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 01:29:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGPEB-0004fj-V7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 01:29:56 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:38792) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGPEB-0004fd-45 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2011 01:29:55 -0400 Received: by bwz17 with SMTP id 17so4964484bwz.0 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:29:53 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Org Mode Hi list, I just would like to share the approach I use (just finished setting it up) to backup org. I keep all my org files on ~/org/*. This is also a git repo. Every night at 12:00AM, a cron job will run a sh script that will: 1) Commit with the current date ( Sat-30-04-2011-11:43:28 PM for example); 2) push to origin. It's simpler than other solution such as backupninja (that I don't if would work on dropbox) and keeps also a revision history (per day). Here's the remote configuration for git. 8 [remote "origin"] 9 url = /Users/myname/Dropbox/org 10 fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin Another thing I should point out is that I'm using (the excellent) org-crypt to encrypt sensitive information such as bank accounts data and passwords. Also, I'm using TimeMachine to backup to an external hard-drive. Time machine is not the most efficient of backup solutions but "just works". I'll see if I can setup backupninja to backup to Dropbox as well, if so, I might switch to that. Hope might useful for someone out there :) Cheers, Marcelo.