Marco Roeben wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2008, Wayne Boucher wrote:
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>> The tweak about remembering where the data was originally is an
>> interesting idea. This would probably be Analysis-specific and if the
>> original data is missing (or moved) we would probably just print a warning
>> and leave it at that.
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> A warning when the data ist missing and if there's new data, you could ask
> something like "don't change anything", "replace spectra" and "import spectra
> as new one". Maybe add a button like "don't ask me again".
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If this was done could this all be in one 'rewiring dialog' rather than
a series of dialogs and warnings?
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>> We will have a facility for automatically backing up the project directory
>> into a gzipped tar file. This will optionally include the used reference
>> data and the data files (but that bit hasn't been done yet so when I
>> finish doing it I'll not better which options work and which don't).
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> Very nice!
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>> Tim has mentioned the possibility of having these gzipped tar files exist
>> in a sequence (so number 1, 2, ...). Of course that would take even more
>> disk space so definitely not everyone will want to do that.
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> I would leave this to a backup utility like e.g. unison.
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Indeed we do at Leeds leave most of this to a backup utility (we use
dirvish which is is very good at incremental backups) However we also
definitley find that named snapshots are useful
regards
gary
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> best regards
> Marco
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