Re: [O] Backuping org with git, cron and Dropbox

2011-05-02 Thread theo
-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

Re: [O] Backuping org with git, cron and Dropbox

2011-05-02 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
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

Re: [O] Backuping org with git, cron and Dropbox

2011-05-01 Thread Bernt Hansen
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 :)):

Re: [O] Backuping org with git, cron and Dropbox

2011-05-01 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
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

Re: [O] Backuping org with git, cron and Dropbox

2011-04-30 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
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