Re: contribution to GTG project and GOPW

[Bertrand Rousseau <bertrand rousseau gmail com>]

2012/3/29 Radina Matic <radina matic gmail com>:
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:09, Izidor Matušov <izidor matusov gmail com>
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Now that I think of it, do you believe that we should include a general
>>>> chapter about backup process? I didn't think of it before, does GTG have
>>>> a
>>>> backup option? How is the user supposed to approach it?
>>>
>>>
>>> No, we don't have an explcit backup option (hmm, interesting. Plugin,
>>> anyone?). The data is stored in .local/share/gtg or
>>> $XDG_DATA_HOME/share/gtg if it is set.
>>>
>>> The user data is replicated in this folder so that if GTG crashes,
>>> there are backuped copies available. To backup/archive GTG data, the
>>> use should backup this folder, and .config/gtg or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtg
>>
>>
>> Actually, we have our backup solution :-) Every day when you launch GTG,
>> it makes a backup copy of your tasks.xml file. If your tasks are stored in
>> ~/.local/share/gtg/gtg_tasks.xml, GTG backups those tasks today as
>> ~/.local/share/gtg/gtg_tasks.xml.2012-03-29
>>
>> It could be more explicitly put in ~/.local/share/gtg/backups/ or
>> something like that. However, it is still on the same disk and if you /home
>> goes down, you loose all your tasks.
>>
>> Izidor
>
>
> Now I remember reading somewhere on Launchpad or on mailing list that there
> was a XML file that could be "backup-ed"... I guess that writing the plugin
> that saves that XML somewhere outside the /home (and possibly on another
> disk) is easier, right?
>
> R.

I don't know about easier, but it certainly can't be hard. The
advantage is mostly to provide a nice user interface for backups.

Bertrand

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Bertrand Rousseau