using bazaar for backup and synchronization of home directory

[Bulgrien, Kevin]

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> From: bazaar-bounces at lists.canonical.com
> [mailto:bazaar-bounces at lists.canonical.com] On Behalf Of Gary Furash
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 11:48 AM
> To: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> Subject: using bazaar for backup and synchronization of home directory
>
> 1. has anyone tried backing up some or all of their "home" directory
> (whatever you consider that to be) to a bazaar repository?
> That way, you
> would have (1) an automated backup and (b) great history and (c) easy
> synchronization across devices.

Yes. (Some vs. all).  I started doing this on Windows at work when I realized that IT did not back up my workstation, but when I realized that meant a drive failure jeopardized certain things I depend on day to day.  For example, I get to back up my "Favorites" collected and sorted over ten years.  A bonus was that I could easily take them to other machines through the VCS.

> 2. if you don't have a network server, could you make the
> core repository on
> a portable drive or some such? I know you can do that with svn.

Yes.  Though I use a server, it's really just another type of media that is only different from removable media in the way it is connected.  What I do is to create a shared-repo somewhere with a name like like "systems".  I then make a repos under it called, for instance, linux, windows_xp, and somesuch so I can maintain environments that are quite different.  I then tend to make light-checkouts to avoid having duplicates on my file system (I'm not bothered by the fact that if the repo is on a network resource that it is slower, because I don't create changes frequently).  When using removable media, then maybe that suggests your home directory should be a heavy-checkout unless you expect to always have that media mounted when you do VCS operations.

> 3. would 1 prohibit you from using your companies' source
> control sytem
> (e.g., git) for subsets of items

No, I use another VCS underneath that "home" folder with no issues.

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