[afb]

Realizing that I should have done this long ago, I went ahead and made a launchd job to backup my main OW workspace daily. It seems particularly a good idea when running the sneaky peeks.

First make a folder called "Backups" in ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/Workspaces.

Make a script in that folder; I called it backup.sh. Just paste this into your favorite text editor. After saving the text file, do chmod +x to it in the terminal to make it executable.

"Reading.owworkspace" is the name of the workspace that I'm backing up; more can be added.
The script will produce backups dated like this: Reading-2006.05.02.owworkspace

#!/bin/sh

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/OmniWeb\ 5/Workspaces

cp Reading.owworkspace Backups/Reading-`date "+%Y.%m.%d"`.owworkspace

(Incidentally, one could also automate the backing up of URLs into a database by gunzipping the workspaces and extracting the URLs from the xml.)

Then make a new launchd entry, and put it in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. (Make the folder if it's not already.) Again, just another text file. Replace "USER" with your username. The backup time here is set to 5:55 am.

In order to make it backup more than once a day, you need to make a new launchd entry; that is, a new file and a new label (instead of USER.OWworkspacebackup, say, USER.OWworkspacebackup.1 and USER.OWworkspacebackup.2). If you do this, you need to change the above script to add the time to the backups' filenames (`date "+%Y.%m.%d.%H.%m"; see man strftime for other date-time options).

(The path to the script here has to be the full path, so no ~/Library/...; note that spaces and other normally escaped characters do not need to be escaped here.)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Debug</key>
	<false/>
	<key>GroupName</key>
	<string>USER</string>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>USER.OWworkspacebackup</string>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>/Users/USER/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/Workspaces/Backups/backup.sh</string>
	</array>
	<key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
	<dict>
		<key>Hour</key>
		<integer>5</integer>
		<key>Minute</key>
		<integer>55</integer>
	</dict>
	<key>UserName</key>
	<string>USER</string>
</dict>
</plist>

(Why is it that the [code] tag leaves so much space after the text?)

Lastly, to activate it, do launchctl load on the launchd file in the terminal.

I hope somebody finds this useful; if you have any questions, let me know.

[Forrest]

Originally Posted by afb

[post=1521](Why is it that the [code] tag leaves so much space after the text?)

It preserves formatting. It also uses a fixed-width font.

[afb]

I meant, why does it have to leave five or six lines after the code? I didn't leave any space after.