backing-you-up

File backups are useful. It happenend more than once to me that I found something in a backup somewhere from 2 months ago that did no end up being commited in git.

Frequent file backups will make you more relaxed.

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Figure 1: Vast open sky! Sun and clouds. high tech fantasy city guild wars afrika flying buildings waterfalls flowers. little rainbows

backup-each-save

Saving buffers is a great joy of life.

With backup-each-save, each save also makes a backup file in a backup dir.

config:

(use-package backup-each-save
  :config
  (add-hook 'after-save-hook #'backup-each-save)
  (setf make-backup-files nil))

Lol, this is how the backup dir looks for this file I am currently modifying.

-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj  858 Oct  4 16:06 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_06_00
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj  916 Oct  4 16:06 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_06_50
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj  935 Oct  4 16:07 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_07_21
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj  937 Oct  4 16:07 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_07_45
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj  959 Oct  4 16:08 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_08_05
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 1.1K Oct  4 16:10 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_10_08
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 1.3K Oct  4 16:12 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_12_08
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 1.3K Oct  4 16:12 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_12_42
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 1.3K Oct  4 16:13 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_13_15
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 1.3K Oct  4 16:13 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_13_28
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 1.3K Oct  4 16:13 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_13_36
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 1.3K Oct  4 16:13 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_13_40
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 2.7K Oct  4 16:16 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_16_09
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 2.7K Oct  4 16:16 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_16_18
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 2.8K Oct  4 16:16 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_16_42
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 2.8K Oct  4 16:16 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_16_49
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 2.8K Oct  4 16:17 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_17_11
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 2.9K Oct  4 16:17 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_17_47
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 2.9K Oct  4 16:18 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_18_34
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 2.9K Oct  4 16:18 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_18_37
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 3.1K Oct  4 16:19 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_19_07
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 3.1K Oct  4 16:19 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_19_10
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 3.1K Oct  4 16:27 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_27_36
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 3.1K Oct  4 16:27 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_27_54
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 3.1K Oct  4 16:28 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_28_10
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 3.1K Oct  4 16:28 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_28_16
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 3.2K Oct  4 16:28 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_28_52
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 3.2K Oct  4 16:31 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_31_40
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 3.3K Oct  4 16:31 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_31_48
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 3.4K Oct  4 16:32 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_32_34
-rw-r--r--  1 benj benj 3.3K Oct  4 16:32 20221004T160458--scratching-in-space__emacs.org-2022_10_04_16_32_40

The backup dir size doesnt matter compared to the vastness of my disk space.

Laptop:

du -h -d0 ~/.backups/
| 43M | /home/benj/.backups/ |

It just doesn't matter.

The space age

Other instances of emacs in the space age:

Date: 2022-10-14 Fri 15:33

Email: Benjamin.Schwerdtner@gmail.com

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