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drbig / saver

Saver is a self-contained cross-platform save-scumming/backup utility
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Add monitoring mode #1

Open AndrewSav opened 8 years ago

AndrewSav commented 8 years ago

Apparently much more complex to implement, but also much more useful is to have an ability for the program to monitor the saves folder and backup when changes (and/or on time interval).

drbig commented 8 years ago

Surely, the problem is cross-platform file & directory monitoring is a PITA. Any suggestions of libraries that would deal with that (in a portable way) would be great.

lethosor commented 8 years ago

A quick search turned up https://github.com/howeyc/fsnotify, although I haven't used it before.

drbig commented 6 years ago

Two years old... but another aspect: For single-file saves watching for "last change" would probably work, but for save-directory... how would it be able to tell "ok, all has been saved, now is the time to back this up"? Unless "incremental backups"... but whole point of this tools is being simple.

lethosor commented 6 years ago

You could look for files in data/save/current being deleted - DF should write them to there first, then copy them to the region folder.