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Re: Time machine does not save the build folder
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Re: Time machine does not save the build folder


  • Subject: Re: Time machine does not save the build folder
  • From: j o a r <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:22:07 -0800


On Nov 6, 2008, at 8:07 AM, Ulf Dunkel wrote:

If you really want backups of a particular version of your app, do it explicitly through some other system. I'd suggest writing a script that zips up your entire project folder, names it properly, and moves it into a "project archives" folder. Then that folder will be backed up by time machine and those "versions" will never, ever be thrown away by time machine.

To me this is backup overkill, while using a Subversion server handles this much better. Using SVN tags, you can easily find important revisions and don't have to backup anything else but the Subversion repositories.


There are many factors that goes into creating a software product that are not necessarily easy to re-create at a later time: OS version, tools versions, hardware platform, etc. I think it's very prudent to archive a copy of the resulting product, in addition to archiving a snapshot of the sources, resources & recipes used to construct it.

I also strongly agree with Steve in that backup != archiving. It just isn't. TimeMachine will delete old backups to make space for new, and I think it's fair to say that all backup strategies work that way one way or the other.

j o a r


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 >Re: Time machine does not save the build folder (From: turbo3d <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Time machine does not save the build folder (From: Steven W Riggins <email@hidden>)
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