Timedog

Timedog travels back in time to restore your files.

Dependencies

• ruby 2.x

Installation

OS X

• git clone https://github.com/piinecone/timedog.git ~/cool/timedog/path/

• add /cool/timedog/path/bin to your $PATH; e.g.:

  echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/cool/timedog/path/bin' >> ~/.bash_profile

• ensure which timedog returns something

• ensure /cool/timedog/path/bin/timedog is executable (chmod +x timedog)

Windows

** Currently completely untested **

• install ruby (http://rubyinstaller.org/) (allow it to add ruby to your $PATH)

• install git bash for windows

• run git bash

• git clone https://github.com/piinecone/timedog.git ~/cool/timedog/path/

• add ~/cool/timedog/path/bin to your $PATH; e.g.:

  echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/cool/timedog/path/bin' >> ~/.bash_profile

• ensure which timedog returns something

• ensure ~/cool/timedog/path/bin/timedog is executable (chmod +x timedog)

Usage

• cd ~/codebase/with/crashy/files

• timedog add *.file_extensions_to_backup

• timedog watch <seconds> to tell timedog to watch the current directory for changes and create restore points every seconds seconds (default is 120)

• timedog list to list backup points:

  [1] 1403920093 created at 2014-06-27 18:48:13 -0700
  [2] 1403920088 created at 2014-06-27 18:48:08 -0700
  [3] 1403920083 created at 2014-06-27 18:48:03 -0700
  

• timedog restore <number> to reset your matching working directory files to that of the chosen restore point

How it works

Caveats

Todo

• Reduce dependencies
• Automated tests

Contributing

• Fork it
• Make sure the hypothetical automated test suite passes
• Pull Request a feature branch with your changes