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From: shaddock@mcnc.org@rti-sel.UUCP (Mike Shaddock)
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Subject: Re:  concerning Gnu Emacs backup files
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Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 15:54:42 EST
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	From: Dick King 
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	To: ramsey@purdue.edu
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	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.

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	.
	
	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.