I moved much of my personal file storage off of my Macs to a server (in this case, running WebDAV); it's all worked really well for the most part.
With Lion, I've been very interested in the "Versions" feature - where applications like OG support what is apparently a Time Machine-like interface for browsing and recovering a history of changes to a file.
My research seems to indicate that this history is not in the file [bundle] nor is it attached in a way similar to the old resource forks. It's stored in a volume-specific database, apparently. (I've also seen reports that some of this data is stored in ~/Library, but I haven't found that location yet.)
What this means is that if it's copied to another volume (a process that some of us call "backing up") the version history goes away.
I'd be interested to know whether anyone has tried backing up versioned documents. or has any other ideas for retaining the document version history. It seems like great idea, and I suspect that Time Machine does manage to preserve versions, but other tools may not.
With Lion, I've been very interested in the "Versions" feature - where applications like OG support what is apparently a Time Machine-like interface for browsing and recovering a history of changes to a file.
My research seems to indicate that this history is not in the file [bundle] nor is it attached in a way similar to the old resource forks. It's stored in a volume-specific database, apparently. (I've also seen reports that some of this data is stored in ~/Library, but I haven't found that location yet.)
What this means is that if it's copied to another volume (a process that some of us call "backing up") the version history goes away.
I'd be interested to know whether anyone has tried backing up versioned documents. or has any other ideas for retaining the document version history. It seems like great idea, and I suspect that Time Machine does manage to preserve versions, but other tools may not.