Never Loose data/notes - An efficient git based backup tool to save your changes periodically.

A git based backup tool. Intelligent enough to trigger a commit, only, if there are any file changes in the folder it is pointed to. Based on cross-platform file notification library.

Example use cases:

• Can be pointed to storage locations of note applications like boostnote

Build

• cargo build --release
• backer-rs is the executable generated in target/release/ folder.

Usage

backer-rs -p <path to the folder to backup> -f 2 -c 300 -n krishnakumar -e <email id of author> -d "Commiting all changes" - -p or --path path to monitor for changes, Note: This path will be converted to git repo (Mandatory) - -f or --ffreq time delay(seconds) between monitoring file changes - -c or --cfreq Wait time before making an automated commit after first file change - -n or --sname Name of the author to be added as signature for commit (Mandatory) - -e or --semail Email id of the author to be added as signature for commit (Mandatory) - -d or --defcommitmsg default automated commit message

backer-rs -p <path to the folder to backup> -n krishnakumar -e <email id of author> - Default file monitoring time is 2 seconds - Default wait time to commit is 5 seconds - Default commit message is Committed all changes