AutoBackUpDoc.tioga
Eric Nickell, October 10, 1985 12:26:48 pm PDT
BACK UP FILES AUTOMATICALLY TO IFS
CEDAR 6.0 — FOR INTERNAL XEROX USE ONLY
Automatic File Backup from Local Disk to Server
Eric Nickell
© Copyright 1985 Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved.
Abstract: Allow a user profile entry to specify remote files to be automatically backed up. If a local file has an attachment to one of the files in this list, then a copy back out to the remote file will be made when Save is clicked in the Tioga viewer. Primary intended use: automatic backup of user profiles for public machines users.
Created by: Eric Nickell
Maintained by: Eric <Nickell.pasa>
Keywords: FS, backup, user profile
XEROX Xerox Corporation
Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
For Internal Xerox Use Only
How to do it
Add a user profile entry:
AutoBackUp.Files: LIST OF TOKEN ← NIL
These tokens may be either switch settings or file names (GNames). Switch settings are of the form
- (?~ letter) ...
being thus set by including the letter, and disabled by including ~letter. Switches thus set are in effect for subsequent file names. Currently, there are two switches:
d Files that follow are df files, and the modification of any of its source files will cause an smodel to occur. (Default: FALSE)
a Back up file iff the previous version of the file was attached to the specified GName. Thus, setting this value to FALSE will cover a wider range of contingencies, but may cause confusion if two independent files have the same short name (which is unlikely, but possible). (Ignored if d TRUE.)
The user profile entry:
AutoBackUp.DefaultSwitches: TOKEN ← ""
allows the user to change the default settings (modify, not substitute).