Alpha Five Version 11 Feature Peek #8: Real-time automatic backup
Last week Google Blogger had a major outage. It's the first outage I can remember since being on the platform since 2007. During the time they went down, there was a lot of concern that they had lost posts. However, every time I write a post, I manually create a HTML copy before I save it in Blogger.
In fact, when I was writing a post last week I noticed that Blogger started to have trouble saving. So I grabbed a copy of the HTML and saved it in a text file. Later that day, I found out that Blogger had crashed and my post (of course it was a long one) had disappeared.
But I wasn't wiping any sweat from my forehead. I had the HTML saved. Fortunately, when Blogger finally came back my post was recovered, but Blogger recovered a slightly earlier version. So I literally pasted the most up-to-date version I saved in a new post.
It would be nice if Blogger automatically backed up multiple versions of my posts every time I saved. Google Docs does it. In fact, throughout the entire Google Docs ecosystem, a version of your Doc is created every time you save it. You can look at a document that goes back two years and see the earliest version.
This same type of technology is coming to Alpha Five Version 11. We call it automatic backup. But by rights, we should probably call it real-time, continuous automatic backup. Why? Because every time you save a version of the component you are coding, that version is backed up and stored in a folder in the Web project.
When you want to retrieve an older version, you right-click the component and choose "Restore backup." You're then given a full timeline of all the versions of the component that have been saved. You can even include comments on different versions to make them easily identifiable.
You'll never have to worry about loosing valuable code in your Grid, Tabbed UI, dialogues, custom components, etc., again. Although backups are stored by default in a folder in the Web project, you can store these backups anywhere you like. Watch the video to learn all the ways you can utilize the new realt-time automatic backup feature in Alpha Five Version 11.
1 comments:
A very nice feature indeed!
I am wondering though if the "automatic backup" only occurs when a user saves the changes....or does it backup at anytime on its own---such as when a change has been made, the page changes, certain amount of time elapses, or...? I ask this as if Alpha or a PC crashes prior to pressing say the save button, will a backup have been created? Although normally I save immediately after making a change there have been times when I have not (and you know that is when something like the aforementioned will happen!!).
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