[Qgis-developer] Project temp file archive bit.

[Nathan Woodrow]

If this was me I would store you project file in a git repo and just commit
every day, or after every change, and backup the git repo.  I have done
this in the past and it has served me well.  Just adding dates to the end
of a file is a very old school way of doing backups.

In any case I don't think adding an option for it is a smart idea.  It is
there for a reason I'm sure you can work around it from your script end.

Make sure you look at the exclue: arg for xcopy you should be able to add
*,qgs~ to it so it will ignore those.

- Nathan


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:45 AM, G. Garibaldi <digitalmaps at cox.net> wrote:

>  Every day I increment the Julian date on the project file I work on. So
> MyIncredibleProject.qgs file becomes, for example today's Julian calendar
> date, 203MyIncredibleProject.qgs. Tomorrow the first thing I do will be to
> increment the file to 204MyIncredibleProject.qgs and so on.
>
> Each day I archive the previous day's file to DVD. On January 1st, 2015 I
> will start a new DVD and file the 2014 data away.
>
> Such an elaborate backup scheme became necessary in my case due to the
> complexity of my project which involves dozens of layers of varying data
> types and the regular trashing of the project file by QGIS.
>
> An option to do away with the automatic backup file would be nice. I'll
> take it from there.
>
> I'm a big boy, I can tie my own shoelaces.
>
> I am very happy with 2.4.
>
>
> On 7/23/2014 2:23 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
>
> Hi G,
>
> On Wed, 23. Jul 2014 at 12:20:56 -0500, G. Garibaldi wrote:
>
>  For some reason a project temp file or a backup file using the extension
> .qgs~ is showing up in my projects directory with QGIS 2.4 Win 7 64 bit.
>
>  It's not a temp file. It's backup of version of the project file (or better put
> the renamed original).
>
>
>  The "xcopy *.qgs" command I use for archival purposes is catching the
> .qgs~ file as well.
>
>   This behavior is different from every QGIS version up to at least 2.18 that I
> have used, for at least the last 5 years.  Why has this changed?
>
>  We are still at 2.4 and the backup file was introduced in November 2013.
>
>
>  Could it be put back like it was? Does anybody have a workaround?  Is there a
> switch somewhere to put the temp file in another subdirectory (I did a casual
> search for this but couldn't find one)?
>
>  What's the problem with having a second backup copy?
>
>
> Jürgen
>
>
>
>
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