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[Radina Matic <radina.matic@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:09, Izidor Matušov <izidor.matusov@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Now that I think of it, do you believe that we should include a general
>>> chapter about backup process? I didn't think of it before, does GTG have
>>> a
>>> backup option? How is the user supposed to approach it?
>>>
>>
>> No, we don't have an explcit backup option (hmm, interesting. Plugin,
>> anyone?). The data is stored in .local/share/gtg or
>> $XDG_DATA_HOME/share/gtg if it is set.
>>
>> The user data is replicated in this folder so that if GTG crashes,
>> there are backuped copies available. To backup/archive GTG data, the
>> use should backup this folder, and .config/gtg or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtg
>>
>
> Actually, we have our backup solution :-) Every day when you launch GTG,
> it makes a backup copy of your tasks.xml file. If your tasks are stored in
> ~/.local/share/gtg/gtg_tasks.**xml, GTG backups those tasks today as
> ~/.local/share/gtg/gtg_tasks.**xml.2012-03-29
>
> It could be more explicitly put in ~/.local/share/gtg/backups/ or
> something like that. However, it is still on the same disk and if you /home
> goes down, you loose all your tasks.
>
> Izidor
>

Now I remember reading somewhere on Launchpad or on mailing list that there
was a XML file that could be "backup-ed"... I guess that writing the plugin
that saves that XML somewhere outside the /home (and possibly on another
disk) is easier, right?

R.