Automatic backup of turn files

[lch]

Nice python scripts, thanks.

I have been using some crude bash scripting myself, you could drop this in your ~/.bashrc if you dare:

Code:

---

function archive {

  if test $# -lt 1; then return; fi

  tar czvf $(basename $1)-$(date +%s).tgz $@

}



function archive-title {

  if test $# -lt 2; then return; fi

  argv=($@)

  tar czvf $(date +%s)-$1.tgz ${argv[@]:1}

}

---

The first "archive" command takes as parameter the path to your game in your savegame directory (you could chmod into the savegame directory first to save typing) and adds a timestamp to the archive, the second "archive-title" command expects some title as first parameter for the savegame and prefixes it with a timestamp (in case you want to have a better view over what the savegame is about, like "SpammedMindHunt").

Yes, that code is ugly and I never went around to improve it, so you better use the python script instead.

[Gandalf Parker]

I set every game to run a --preexec and a --postexec which usually start out as blanks. But that way if the game gets interesting I can easily add commands to those. Such as having the pre exec do a zip of the game before each hosting.

Thats one of the many MANY reasons that I pushed to get those added to the command line. It handles so many things