The Bearer Of Bad News

[Richard Gaskin]

Peter Haworth wrote:

 > I use Time machine for local backups and all my LC dev files are
 > on Google Drive so I feel pretty comfortable with recovering any
 > stack files I need.

That redundancy is probably a good idea.  Backup services fail, media 
fails, all sorts of things can happen.

Here I mix Time Machine, OwnCloud, and a rotating set of USB3 drives 
that go home with me for an embarrassingly large number of redundant 
archives, but at least I sleep well at night.


 > There's another level of recovery I made available in
 > lcStackBrowser.  It's not made for backups per se, more in the way
 > of keeping temporary versions of a stack while you're working on it.
 >  I called them checkpoints rather than backups for that reason.

Pretty cool.

I only recently discovered the saveStackRequest message, and this has me 
thinking about using that in a plugin frontScript to automatically 
trigger rsync so I can copy versions to other backup drives super-fast.

If I get some time to make a usable version of that I'll share it, but 
it's easy enough to make one from scratch (not much code involved).  The 
hardest part is setting up shared SSH keys between machines if you need 
to sync across the network, but even that takes only a minute once 
you've done it a couple times.

For any of you who haven't yet set up shared keys, John Craig posted a 
nice tutorial on that in the forums:
<http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=20853>

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