[ProgSoc] Data Persistence in the cloud

Chris Deigan ctd at progsoc.uts.edu.au
Wed Jan 19 11:44:34 EST 2011


On 19/01/2011, at 10:39 AM, Daniel Bryan wrote:
> This may be a little off-topic but I've been reading lately about people using versioning systems - Mercurial particularly - for backing up their dotfiles. It's a pretty attractive approach - add your config files to the repository when they're created, then just periodically run an update and your backup syncs smoothly. It also functions as a snapshot system so you can restore to any previous point for particular config files if you screw anything up.

I do this for my dotfiles using git. Primarily to keep them in sync between machines, though. But as a nifty bonus, every machine I have a copy of the repo on also functions as a backup for the whole repository (since git is decentralised).


-Chris.


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