Does anyone have any objections to checking in the Autosave Backup code to GIT? Does it seem to be safe enough? I know Andrew had suggested to "test with caution" so is there any concern? I have not encountered any anomalies in my tests and you know I always log in as root.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:51 AM Andrea paz via Cin < [email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking of adding a section in the manual about how backup > works in CinGG. > Please correct me if I am wrong: > if I don't enable the new option (default), a backup is created at > each editing action (see below the list of actions suggested by > Andràs) but this overwrites the previous backup.prev so in .bcast5 > there will be only one backup file (plus backup.xml whose function I > don't understand). The same when we manually create a backup via File > --> save backup. When we make a File --> Load backup, in addition to > bring on the timeline the backup.prev we also create a new > backup.prev. > > If I enable "Autosaves continuous backups" the backup.prev file is not > overwritten, but a new backup.prev_xxxxxxxx_xxxxxx (with data and > clock time) is created. These are small files so their number is not a > problem. In any case when you exit CinGG the various backups are > deleted except for the last 50, which will still be available at the > next restart. The new option is put in Settings --> Preferences --> > Appearance Tab under the Dangerous section because if you have a crash > or anyway you don't exit CinGG correctly, the delete phase doesn't > happen and the risk is the increase of the backup files inside .bcast5 > but, as said, their size is very small and so not a big problem. > With this option enabled, how does File --> save/load backup work? > Is there anything I didn't understand? Is there anything to add? > > > > There are a few parts where save_backup() is called (Reuss Andràs): > > cinelerra/cwindowgui.C:2 > cinelerra/swindow.C:1 > cinelerra/keyframepopup.C:2 > cinelerra/pluginpopup.C:1 > cinelerra/mwindowedit.C:87 > cinelerra/presetsgui.C.sav1:1 > cinelerra/assetpopup.C:1 > cinelerra/cwindowtool.C:1 > cinelerra/render.C:1 > cinelerra/setformat.C:1 > cinelerra/mwindow.C:9 > cinelerra/keyframegui.C:2 > cinelerra/mwindowgui.C:1 > cinelerra/mainmenu.C:1 > cinelerra/loadfile.C:2 > cinelerra/savefile.C:2 > cinelerra/menueffects.C:1 > cinelerra/main.C:1 > cinelerra/presetsgui.C.sav:1 > cinelerra/record.C:1 > cinelerra/plugindialog.C:1 > -- > Cin mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin >
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