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Korganizer automatic backups

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hstoellinger
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Korganizer automatic backups

Tue Sep 17, 2013 8:01 am
Hello, everytime I change anything in Kalender (Korganizer), it backs up data. Is there a way I can define how often backups are going to be done? E.g., periodically every x minutes or after x updates.
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Re: Korganizer automatic backups

Wed Sep 18, 2013 10:34 am
These "backups" are made by KOrganizer to avoid loss of data should the system become unable to complete the operation to save changes to your information - such as when power is lost, the application crashes, or other similar adverse events.

If you are looking for proper backups, I would recommend performing them using another tool such as Luckybackup.


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Re: Korganizer automatic backups

Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:03 am
Ofcourse - I DO understand the principles behind backing up data! However I would hope that there is something like "automatically backup data" every x updates or after every 10 minutes, don't you agree? Just imagine a multi-user system with many people accessing Korganizer. Wouldn't this lead to possibly inacceptible load on eg. the disks? Basically I would like to be able specify the backup frequency.
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Re: Korganizer automatic backups

Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:50 am
It shouldn't lead to a severe level of load on disk infrastructure from what i'm aware - as it moves the original file to the restore filename, before writing out a completely fresh file containing the new data. These writes are *only* performed when a change is made to the data, and is an automatic part of KDE infrastructure which KOrganizer utilises to write to files in a safe manner.

It is more of a data safety feature than a backup feature - and as such you can't change the behaviour of it, as you can't use the method it uses if you only write out a backup every x changes.


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Re: Korganizer automatic backups

Fri Sep 20, 2013 5:25 pm
Well, if it is like that, I will have to accept it. It is just that I also use LibreOffice. There you can specify exactly what I want regarding "data safety"...
Thanks in any case for your help
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