Mario, Snapshot saves are very useful when designing especialy if the restore to latest snapshot is clear and easy. Backups server more of an everyday guarantee, snapshots are a nice ad hoc option, perhaps just before saving a tiddler with a potential show stopper in it.
Love your work Tony On Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 10:37:30 PM UTC+11, PMario wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 10:07:53 PM UTC+1, Mark S. wrote: > ... > >> I wasn't talking about the original source file. I was talking about the >> files in twbackups. I want them to save somewhere else. I don't want them >> to save in the original files' directory or sub-directory because that will >> cause more maintenance headaches. >> > > OK I see. > > >> For instance, tiddlydesktop has a backup, and I just set it to send the >> backups to a directory on a drive that has lots of free space. I don't have >> to worry about remembering to delete the backup set before doing a physical >> backup. >> > > Yea, TD creates an unlimited number of files. file-backups creates the > number of files you allow it, to create (PLUS 1 for the "out of order" > save). So the size should be deterministic. > > ------ > > I was thinking about the possibility to create something like a "Snapshot > Save". Which will do a similar thing as the "out of order" backup, but with > the possibility to configure a "snapshot-name". ... like: myWiki-(Version > 1) ... where "Version 1" is the snapshot name and can be anything. > > Following our discussion, I think there should be a different directory > setting for the snapshots. Defaulting to twSnapshots > > -mario > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/181203e9-d892-4ed1-bfad-00771b102fb6%40googlegroups.com.
