But you said it runs every 5 minutes. So you kind of have to be aware that you haven't seen an announcement in the last 5 minutes?
Better to just get a warning from TW that something is amiss. -- Mark On Friday, March 9, 2018 at 12:11:32 PM UTC-8, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Mark, > > That is one of the reasons why I use external backup. > > It ALERTS me on a real save of new. I get a small notification on screen > indicating a new save was found and backed. That way I know if there is a > problem when I thought I saved when I don't see that message. Most > auto-backup tools can do that. > > Josiah > > > > On Friday, 9 March 2018 20:37:52 UTC+1, Mark S. wrote: >> >> Zyb is saying (I think) that the failure occurred silently. That is, it >> didn't announce that it wasn't saving. So your method would fail just like >> the DropBox method, because no new edits were being saved to disk. >> >> Maybe TW needs to make a bigger fuss when a save fails so that the user >> knows to stop working. It already does this when running on node.js. >> >> -- Mark >> >> On Friday, March 9, 2018 at 11:12:37 AM UTC-8, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >>> >>> Ciao Zyb >>> >>> To the people suggesting backups: You’re aware, right? that we are >>>> talking about unsaved (and unsavable), ‘dirty’ files here, for which the >>>> backup process (simultaneous to the save) has already failed >>>> >>> >>> ABSOLUTELY. That is why I run redundant backup that checks for changes >>> every 5 minutes. External backup is simply the reliable method with the >>> least hassle. >>> >>> The other writers who are talking about JSON scenarios are correct, but >>> overlooking breakdown scenarios. >>> >>> Best wishes >>> Josiah >>> >> -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ba89bdd1-5e71-4e9d-aee6-dc921a27aff9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
