The quickest approach would be to write a wrap script around the script
that starts up netbeans.

In that script you could use simple copy or more advanced rsync to backup
stuff to a destination of your liking. If that destination has the date as
part of the (dir) name, you would have a daily backup. To prevent this to
fill up you backup space, the script could drop dirs older than say 14
days.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 15:59 Mitch Claborn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yesterday I accidentally deleted all of my project groups. I was able to
> recover from a full computer backup, but I had to search around to find
> out where they were stored and then manually restore the files.
>
> To improve my chances of full recovery for the next time I do something
> stupid, I want to start backing up my NetBeans config once a day.
>
> It would be extra-super-cool if NetBeans could do that for me.
> Something, like: take a backup on the first startup of NetBeans on a
> calendar day, to a specified directory with a date sensitive filename
> pattern.
>
> Is such a thing possible? Assuming that it is not a current capability,
> is it feasible to write a plugin or a change to the base system to
> accomplish this?
> --
>
> Mitch
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