Comments on: Learning to Read… http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2007/09/learning-to-read/ Thoughts, Projects, Happenings, Ideas Sun, 13 May 2012 20:56:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colin M http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2007/09/learning-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-318 Colin M Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:48:25 +0000 http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2007/09/learning-to-read/#comment-318 Yeah, I just found MarcoPolo a few days ago myself, while trying to find a hook somewhere for running the authentication script. Pretty handy. I like the Docs idea: i was trying to figure out how to manage the huge number of files I would be ignoring from SVN while versioning my entire home directory. The symlinks are a clever trick as well, thanks! The key for me is just to have some sort of manageable offsite backup, and the versioning seems like a nice plus. I think I recall you are using Unison? or maybe just rsync? How is that working out? Yeah, I just found MarcoPolo a few days ago myself, while trying to find a hook somewhere for running the authentication script. Pretty handy.

I like the Docs idea: i was trying to figure out how to manage the huge number of files I would be ignoring from SVN while versioning my entire home directory. The symlinks are a clever trick as well, thanks!

The key for me is just to have some sort of manageable offsite backup, and the versioning seems like a nice plus. I think I recall you are using Unison? or maybe just rsync? How is that working out?

]]> By: Paul Betts http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2007/09/learning-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Paul Betts Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:36:38 +0000 http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2007/09/learning-to-read/#comment-317 PS Didn't know about Marco Polo, looks like it kicks Home Zone's ass - thanks! PS Didn’t know about Marco Polo, looks like it kicks Home Zone’s ass – thanks!

]]> By: Paul Betts http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2007/09/learning-to-read/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Paul Betts Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:36:08 +0000 http://www.mccambridge.org/blog/2007/09/learning-to-read/#comment-316 Putting your home directory in SVN is a giant pain-in-the-ass, don't do it; too many programs touch random files for it to be useful. If you want to do this, instead pick a handy subfolder, like Documents, then set up symlinks to non-Document folders you want to back up (ie move ~/AppSettings/Adium/Logs to ~/Documents/IM Logs, then ln -s ~/AppSettings/Adium/Logs ~/Documents/IM Logs) Putting your home directory in SVN is a giant pain-in-the-ass, don’t do it; too many programs touch random files for it to be useful.

If you want to do this, instead pick a handy subfolder, like Documents, then set up symlinks to non-Document folders you want to back up (ie move ~/AppSettings/Adium/Logs to ~/Documents/IM Logs, then ln -s ~/AppSettings/Adium/Logs ~/Documents/IM Logs)

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