Re: On backup (was: Argh! where have all my stacks gone?)

[Steven W. Riggins]

We had this problem with projects in HyperCard, because the media was kept in the same file as your code. Usually, code is what changed the most, and that is the smallest of the assets.

I am not sure what 2.0 has, but because product stability is *paramount* as is protecting your assets, I would propose several items (unless they are there)

1) The ability to save your project in an XML file. This could include media (converted into text) or not (would store references to media on disk)

2) The ability to script Rev to do this (from say AppleScript, or some other outside source)

You could then (as I do with CodeWarrior) export your project to XML and check that into a CVS source tree. You get the benefits of keeping versions of your project, looking at the differences (how many times have you wanted to see "ohhh I deleted a line from that button by accident!) and also give you a way to back up the project sans the media.

You could then use Backup app of your choice. For me, I would run my shell script that gzips the file, gpg encrypts it, moves it into a folder where the .mac backup app then backs it up later.

It is a little involved, but I know we had no such beast in the HC days. In fact, talk about flashback, I had a script to dump a stack to a tagged file format! I remember it failed if you used object IDs on recreation (because I could not specify them) but it was a backup to stack corruption issues.

Amazing how we seem to chase our tails....

Anyhow, I can see projects being so large that just disk copying is not enough. It is great for daily backups, but if you want long term archivals and not have to worry about corruption creep, a text based solution is better.

I thanked the Codewarrior gods when they allowed for XML export......

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