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From: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Feature request] org-backup
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:13:58 -0600
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To: Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>
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Hi Dan!

I already do this, but sometimes the files are spread around *many*
directories. I.e, the model of having everything in a
version-controlled directory is unpractical, so that's why I think it
would be useful.

Marcelo.

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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