From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer M Krug Subject: Re: For Org, numbered backups or version control? Which settings? Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:39:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47149) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDY1V-0007am-83 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 08:39:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDY1S-0000Fz-3V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 08:39:41 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::22b]:37837) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDY1R-0000Ft-T6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 08:39:38 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id f206so8246148wmf.0 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2015 05:39:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: 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: Jorge Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Envoy=C3=A9 de mon iPhone > Le 28 d=C3=A9c. 2015 =C3=A0 13:47, Jorge a =C3=A9cr= it : >=20 > Hi. My ~/org folder, with its sub directories, has a total of 13 .org > files. Five of them are agenda files. I set up numbered backup, with > the backups going to a separate directory: ~/auto-backups. For the > most important org files, I raised the number of numbered backups > kept. For example, my biggest org file has the following local > variables: > - Local variables: > - auto-save-interval: 150 > - version-control: t > - kept-new-versions: 80 > - End: >=20 > I sincronize both ~/org and ~/auto-backups to a cloud syncing service. > ~/auto-backups now is 97MiB, about 2% of my 5.5GiB cloud quota. >=20 > Do you recommend keeping my current setup? Or should I adopt some > version control system to have better history (right now I save only > the latest 80 versions, and Emacs saves a new backup only on the Emacs > session's first save)? >=20 I would look into hit for version control. This would give you more control a= nd no limit for the number of versions.=20=