RE: backup deleting old files
- From: Vadim Strizhevsky <vadim optonline net>
- To: Robert Mibus <mibus bigpond com>
- Cc: gnome-pilot-list gnome org
- Subject: RE: backup deleting old files
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 23:05:55 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Mibus writes:
> the backup conduit not deleting files that had been deleted on the palm was
> one of the most annoying things for me (the toggle option did nothing).
Hmm. interesting. it actually does *nothing* ;)
> try this patch (diff'ed against gnome-pilot-1.0.52's backup_conduit.c). i
> would appreciate comments, queries, flame, etc :)
Looks fine to me.
>
> if you don't want to trust your backups to it, comment out the unlink()
> line. if you want to see the messages, go to a console, type
>
> killall pilot_applet
> killall gpilotd
> pilot_applet
>
> hopefully the patch is good enough for you guys & gets committed. (as
> opposed to me getting committed :)
I commited the patch as is, with unlink. However what I'd really like
to see is an option to preserve previous N states of the backup. If
anyone has time and desire to do that, it'd be nice to have, I think.
>
> (the patch is also @ http://users.bigpond.com/mibus/gnome-pilot.patch incase
> the attachment doesnt 'stick' to this message.)
Thanks,
Vadim
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