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From: Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>
To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Feature request] org-backup
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:49:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1fwrr38re.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinmWO3UDy9Yy44LvGaBdrKXwSn+4ihGfzTnTXF6@mail.gmail.com> (Marcelo de Moraes Serpa's message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:34:04 -0600")

Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi list,
>
> Although I try to keep all my org files inside a ~/org directory, I
> often find myself creating org files outside of this directory
> context, for example, as a bucket for a new project I'm working on, to
> keep notes, todos, etc.
>
> It'd be nice if we had a org-backup function that would fetch all
> files from the agenda + linked files and create a compressed backup of
> them. What do you think?

Hi Marcelo,

I think backing up text files is a job for other tools; not emacs. I'd
recommend using a version control tool such as git for this.

Dan

>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcelo.
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-13 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-13 21:34 [Feature request] org-backup Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-02-13 21:49 ` Dan Davison [this message]
2011-02-13 23:13   ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-02-13 23:14     ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-02-14  0:03       ` Bastien
2011-02-21  7:04         ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-14  0:45     ` suvayu ali
2011-02-14  1:06       ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-02-14  9:06       ` Bastien
2011-02-14  9:16         ` Suvayu Ali
2011-02-14 21:06           ` Bastien
2011-02-14 12:38     ` Dan Davison
2011-02-14 21:26       ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-02-14 22:56         ` Dan Davison
2011-02-15 16:44           ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa

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