From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Out-of-control backups!
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:11:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbpnyz4t.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsikrfeuh.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:52:47 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Of course, you could make backups (to external drives). But as far
>> as I'm concerned, I know I won't do that regularly if at all.
>
> The idea that someone might do backups manually baffles me,
No, back then when I did make backups I automated that using a cron job
that checked if my external HDD was connected, and if so, do an
incremental backup. But that didn't work too well for two reasons. 1)
I simply didn't get to my external HDD too often, and 2) I accidentally
backed up large new files that weren't covered by my black/whitelists
and globs. Then I either could just wait for the file copy to finish,
or abort the backup, edit my blacklist and backup again.
Bye,
Tassilo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-20 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-11 12:26 Out-of-control backups! Sharon Kimble
2014-08-11 12:47 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.6967.1407761447.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-19 3:17 ` Hans BKK
2014-08-19 3:33 ` Rusi
2014-08-19 16:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-08-20 6:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2014-08-20 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-20 15:11 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2014-08-20 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.7267.1408515668.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-08-20 17:34 ` Emanuel Berg
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