Re: [O] Backuping org with git, cron and Dropbox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On 01/05/2011 07:36, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: 1 DAYW=$(date | cut -d -f 1) 2 NOW=$(date +%d-%m-%Y-%r) [...] 6 git commit -a -m $DAYW-$NOW Could be shorten : 6 git commit -a -m $(date +'%A-%F-%T') - -- Freeely, theo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNvubRAAoJECkgngj8k9Tvn+UH/1wv5z7Z5sLjBMuxERkZlSsi 8yPGbRyg6TgVXUjNAseOSoDeYPfj83cz+DF1mX7A9xz1GPfW+M38lWyNR2ALFL75 0/V5X40Yz9RuLb06CoilVH7xUu7SEbTHbSEjjwnZIj6WeKAhalucWR0L0ZoWbE5K 54lxfrzm+VcVZI3eD1AuROjoEgf+OZFc24qFqEepeH6cVydUEuRnNXVVfIxq7XDN IyF1wXkmqvWgX9FKuRY4XNM62z4UZBDj/Pwvt/vhJA64tK43d8By6N/vmwQJu3a+ iS0+xLPV2ud5t7bQ8Cz1nxQJ4lsBwBfJhQhIIfbWBeq+tULE5Fo+w/iixQn8UI8= =GQrM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [O] Backuping org with git, cron and Dropbox
Hi Theo, Thanks for the tip. I don't really program in bash, so that was a useful tip. I'll start getting into it more, as it's a simple and powerful way to solve problems, and it's available almost everywhere you have a POSIX OS :) Cheers, Marcelo. On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:16 PM, theo theocr...@theocrite.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On 01/05/2011 07:36, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: 1 DAYW=$(date | cut -d -f 1) 2 NOW=$(date +%d-%m-%Y-%r) [...] 6 git commit -a -m $DAYW-$NOW Could be shorten : 6 git commit -a -m $(date +'%A-%F-%T') - -- Freeely, theo -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNvubRAAoJECkgngj8k9Tvn+UH/1wv5z7Z5sLjBMuxERkZlSsi 8yPGbRyg6TgVXUjNAseOSoDeYPfj83cz+DF1mX7A9xz1GPfW+M38lWyNR2ALFL75 0/V5X40Yz9RuLb06CoilVH7xUu7SEbTHbSEjjwnZIj6WeKAhalucWR0L0ZoWbE5K 54lxfrzm+VcVZI3eD1AuROjoEgf+OZFc24qFqEepeH6cVydUEuRnNXVVfIxq7XDN IyF1wXkmqvWgX9FKuRY4XNM62z4UZBDj/Pwvt/vhJA64tK43d8By6N/vmwQJu3a+ iS0+xLPV2ud5t7bQ8Cz1nxQJ4lsBwBfJhQhIIfbWBeq+tULE5Fo+w/iixQn8UI8= =GQrM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [O] Backuping org with git, cron and Dropbox
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa celose...@gmail.com writes: Another thing: I'm considering setting the commit cron job to every hour. So, every hour I would have a fresh copy of org pushed to my dropbox volume. I forgot to share the commit.sh (I don't usually program in bash, so bear with me :)): 1 DAYW=$(date | cut -d -f 1) 2 NOW=$(date +%d-%m-%Y-%r) 3 4 cd ~/org 5 git add . 6 git commit -a -m $DAYW-$NOW 7 git push Cheers, Hi Marcelo, I use the following script hourly http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#OrgGitSyncSh which also handles removing deleted files. Regards, Bernt
Re: [O] Backuping org with git, cron and Dropbox
Bernt, That's amazing! Much more complex, and I really liked the idea of tracking every directory that has important files (including configuration files). Thank you for sharing. As for deleting files, I just rm -rf when I need to, so the next commit -a will catch it. But yours is definitely a new (and I'd say better) backup paradigm. I will definitely implement your ideas later, but right now I'm satisfied (kind of) OK with OSX's Time Machine. Cheers, Marcelo. On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Bernt Hansen be...@norang.ca wrote: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa celose...@gmail.com writes: Another thing: I'm considering setting the commit cron job to every hour. So, every hour I would have a fresh copy of org pushed to my dropbox volume. I forgot to share the commit.sh (I don't usually program in bash, so bear with me :)): 1 DAYW=$(date | cut -d -f 1) 2 NOW=$(date +%d-%m-%Y-%r) 3 4 cd ~/org 5 git add . 6 git commit -a -m $DAYW-$NOW 7 git push Cheers, Hi Marcelo, I use the following script hourly http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#OrgGitSyncSh which also handles removing deleted files. Regards, Bernt
Re: [O] Backuping org with git, cron and Dropbox
Another thing: I'm considering setting the commit cron job to every hour. So, every hour I would have a fresh copy of org pushed to my dropbox volume. I forgot to share the commit.sh (I don't usually program in bash, so bear with me :)): 1 DAYW=$(date | cut -d -f 1) 2 NOW=$(date +%d-%m-%Y-%r) 3 4 cd ~/org 5 git add . 6 git commit -a -m $DAYW-$NOW 7 git push Cheers, Marcelo. On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa celose...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I just would like to share the approach I use (just finished setting it up) to backup org. I keep all my org files on ~/org/*. This is also a git repo. Every night at 12:00AM, a cron job will run a sh script that will: 1) Commit with the current date ( Sat-30-04-2011-11:43:28 PM for example); 2) push to origin. It's simpler than other solution such as backupninja (that I don't if would work on dropbox) and keeps also a revision history (per day). Here's the remote configuration for git. 8 [remote origin] 9 url = /Users/myname/Dropbox/org 10 fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin Another thing I should point out is that I'm using (the excellent) org-crypt to encrypt sensitive information such as bank accounts data and passwords. Also, I'm using TimeMachine to backup to an external hard-drive. Time machine is not the most efficient of backup solutions but just works. I'll see if I can setup backupninja to backup to Dropbox as well, if so, I might switch to that. Hope might useful for someone out there :) Cheers, Marcelo.
