From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Out-of-control backups! Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:11:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87vbpnyz4t.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> References: <87wqafnreh.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <4a9b74f4-a4c5-40fc-93a7-071a2f86eb18@googlegroups.com> <87ppfwfmjj.fsf@debian.uxu> <87d2bv1y2k.fsf@thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408547535 2619 80.91.229.3 (20 Aug 2014 15:12:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:12:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 20 17:12:07 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XK7YR-0008UH-1c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:12:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XK7YQ-00058A-4N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53775) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XK7Y6-00050f-QL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:11:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XK7Xy-0002FT-HB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:11:42 -0400 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]:45931) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XK7Xy-0002F9-BX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:11:34 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACACA1A83BF; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:11:32 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32pUPAs00Gvz; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:11:32 +0200 (CEST) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender noch tsdh@gnu.org Original-Received: from thinkpad-t440p.tsdh.org (dhcp72.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.71.72]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 605F51A83BB; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 17:11:32 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:52:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 141.26.64.15 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99319 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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