2012/3/29 Radina Matic <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:09, Izidor Matušov <[email protected]> > 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 -- Bertrand Rousseau _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
