Liviu, That sounds like a good system. I am quite lazy and usually forget to update the documentation of files and their versions.
Xu On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Xu Wang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Graham, > > > > That's interesting! haha yes, sometimes I have a similar problem of > knowing > > I made a backup but forgetting where. That's why I'm switching to using a > > version control system. I think these are better than and dropbox-like > > alternative because of regressions. You often don't want to go back to a > > previous version, you just want to figure out what went wrong. I think > that > > version control systems are the best for this. > > > Good point. I have just tried, and with SpiderOak you can easily > download two historic versions of a file, and then diff them using > Meld or similar. So this can be done, too. > > For simplistic usage, the big thingy missing from dropbox-like > solutions is a log entry for each backup. This is why I tend to have a > 'change.log' file that I update when reaching some milestone, where I > input the current date and a VC-like log entry. It's a bit hackish but > it works for me. > > Liviu > > > > Glad everything is fine! > > > > Best, > > > > Xu > > > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Graham Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Hello Xu, > >> > >>> I don't mean to be parental, but this should be a good reminder to you > >>> that it's always good to save frequently and to save many different > >>> versions. Ideally you should look into a version control system (which > LyX > >>> actually supports!), but at the least, make multiple backups, and not > just > >>> one one machine. > >> > >> Or, to remember that a back up exists!! > >> All my documents are in a Dropbox folder which is then synced to three > >> different computers including one off site, as well as the Dropbox > servers. > >> > >> Dropbox records a snapshot of every save for the last 30 days, and saves > >> them on their server. They also do a paid version which saves snapshots > for > >> longer than 30 days. > >> I save frequently, indeed looking at the log on Dropbox I seem to save > >> every two to three minutes and I have 22 pages of snapshots. > >> I had forgotten all about this until your comments above. However, the > >> free Dropbox solution isn't going to help if I come back to a document > in 6 > >> months time, as it only keeps the versions for 30 days, rather than > keeping > >> 30 days worth of versions (if you see what I mean), which I hadn't > realised. > >> So I will need to think about that, and thanks fro raising it. > >> Graham > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > Do you know how to read? > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader > Do you know how to write? > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail >
