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by sedachv 3494 days ago
> An hourly cron job on my machine rsyncs my source directory to the zone and then creates a ZFS snapshot. So, hopefully no matter how badly I use git now I will never be able to lose more than about an hours worth of work.

This is a thread about Emacs - no need for ZFS, Emacs can already do versioned file backups for you!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/151945/how-do-i-control-h...
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weavie 3494 days ago
That is very interesting. I do have Emacs making some sort of backup, but have never managed to get it to work reliably. I'll follow those instructions.
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sedachv 3494 days ago
What was confusing for me is understanding that by default Emacs does not back up on every save. It makes a copy when you first open a file, so only the version of the file before you start editing it is what gets backed up.
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