Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!mit-eddie!shaddock From: shaddock@mcnc.org@rti-sel.UUCP (Mike Shaddock) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: concerning Gnu Emacs backup files Message-ID: <8701052054.AA10094@rti-sel> Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 15:54:42 EST Article-I.D.: rti-sel.8701052054.AA10094 Posted: Mon Jan 5 15:54:42 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Jan-87 22:22:11 EST Sender: daemon@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Lines: 54 From @prep.ai.mit.edu:king@KESTREL.ARPA Mon Jan 5 14:35:36 1987 Received: from mcnc.mcnc.org (mcnc) by rti-sel (4.12/4.7) id AA07127; Mon, 5 Jan 87 14:34:38 est Received: from RELAY.CS.NET by mcnc.mcnc.org (5.54/MCNC/1-2-87) id AA22961; Mon, 5 Jan 87 14:24:20 EST Received: from prep.ai.mit.edu by RELAY.CS.NET id aa03853; 5 Jan 87 14:05 EST Received: by prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 5 Jan 87 13:58:01 EST Received: by kestrel.ARPA (4.12/4.9) id AA21042; Mon, 5 Jan 87 10:56:40 pst Date: Mon, 5 Jan 87 10:56:40 pst From: Dick KingMessage-Id: <8701051856.AA21042@kestrel.ARPA> To: ramsey@purdue.edu Cc: info-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu In-Reply-To: Ed Ramsey's message of Sun, 04 Jan 87 09:50:05 EST <8701041450.AA08983@arthur.cs.purdue.edu> Subject: concerning Gnu Emacs backup files Date: Sun, 04 Jan 87 09:50:05 EST From: Ed Ramsey I would like to create a directory /usr/ramsey/.gnubackup and have gnu emacs store all tilde and #*# files there. From: franz!ficl!jkf@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (John Foderaro) Date: Sun, 04 Jan 87 11:28:08 PST As an alternative to putting backup files in a ~/.gnubackup directory, I'd like to suggest that you try these two ideas: (setq delete-auto-save-files t) should clean your #*# files. If it doesn't, report a bug. . . . I for one would be VERY UPSET if i worked at a site where the superuser made such a serious decision for me as "you can't count on backups being around for more than three days". I would probably change the format of my backups to avoid the automatic deletion, although i would tolerate [and even recommend, perhaps] automatic compression. -dick I am planning on automagically deleting backup files at my site simply because we, like most sites, have only X amount of disk storage. However, we do daily backups, so any file more than three days old would be on two or three backup tapes before it was deleted.