Does anyone have any objections to checking in the Autosave Backup code to GIT? Does it seem to be safe enough? I know Andrew had suggested to "test with caution" so is there any concern? I have not encountered any anomalies in my tests and you know I always log in as root. On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 1:51 AM Andrea paz via Cin < [email protected]> wrote:
I was thinking of adding a section in the manual about how backup works in CinGG. Please correct me if I am wrong: if I don't enable the new option (default), a backup is created at each editing action (see below the list of actions suggested by Andràs) but this overwrites the previous backup.prev so in .bcast5 there will be only one backup file (plus backup.xml whose function I don't understand). The same when we manually create a backup via File --> save backup. When we make a File --> Load backup, in addition to bring on the timeline the backup.prev we also create a new backup.prev.
If I enable "Autosaves continuous backups" the backup.prev file is not overwritten, but a new backup.prev_xxxxxxxx_xxxxxx (with data and clock time) is created. These are small files so their number is not a problem. In any case when you exit CinGG the various backups are deleted except for the last 50, which will still be available at the next restart. The new option is put in Settings --> Preferences --> Appearance Tab under the Dangerous section because if you have a crash or anyway you don't exit CinGG correctly, the delete phase doesn't happen and the risk is the increase of the backup files inside .bcast5 but, as said, their size is very small and so not a big problem. With this option enabled, how does File --> save/load backup work? Is there anything I didn't understand? Is there anything to add?
There are a few parts where save_backup() is called (Reuss Andràs):
cinelerra/cwindowgui.C:2 cinelerra/swindow.C:1 cinelerra/keyframepopup.C:2 cinelerra/pluginpopup.C:1 cinelerra/mwindowedit.C:87 cinelerra/presetsgui.C.sav1:1 cinelerra/assetpopup.C:1 cinelerra/cwindowtool.C:1 cinelerra/render.C:1 cinelerra/setformat.C:1 cinelerra/mwindow.C:9 cinelerra/keyframegui.C:2 cinelerra/mwindowgui.C:1 cinelerra/mainmenu.C:1 cinelerra/loadfile.C:2 cinelerra/savefile.C:2 cinelerra/menueffects.C:1 cinelerra/main.C:1 cinelerra/presetsgui.C.sav:1 cinelerra/record.C:1 cinelerra/plugindialog.C:1 -- Cin mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin