Re: Tool for document management
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On 08/22/07 10:26, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Hello,
> I am looking for a tool to help me maintain a backup of a writing project.
> Being a programmer my first instinct is to use something along the lines of
> rcs/cvs. I was thinking of svn since I have a project on Google Code and have
> the tools installed on one of the machines on which I would do a part of the
> writing. However in attempting to answer this question for myself with Google
> searches I ran across a message in a mailing list which said that version
> controls designed for software might not be the best for documents.
>
> What I want is the following:
>
> o backup my work on a machine separate from the machine(s) I'll be working on.
>
> o sync across multiple machines.
>
> o handle non-text data as well as some textual data. The main file that is
> going to change most often is an OOo document (odt). I'll also be storing any
> related files including Mindmap files (mm) and Writer's Cafe files.
>
> o version might be nice in case I want to back out of large portions of the
> document or refer to previous verbage I had removed and want to reconsider.
>
> o must be accessible on Windows and Linux (Debian/KUbuntu)
>
> At first glance I am leaning for throwing Subversion on my main box so I
> can sync the other two machines off of it. Not sure if there is something
> better suited to the task or that svn would be particularly ill suited.
How big (in bytes) is this writing project?
Unless it's got lots of images, it shouldn't be that big.
(Uncompressed, the text of the KJV Bible is only (decimal) 4.4MB,
and compressed it's (decimal) 1.3MB.)
So why couldn't you tar up your directory into proj_<timestamp>.tar
and rcp it to a couple of other computers? (Since you use odt, no
need to compress the tarball.)
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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