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better vim backup strategy
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backup.crontab
# clean up any backups not used in the past 7 days out of the ~/.backup directory
@daily find ~/.backup -type f -name '*;*' -not \( -atime 0 -or -atime 1 -or -atime 2 -or -atime 3 -or -atime 4 -or -atime 5 -or -atime 6 \) -delete
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backup.vim
" set where to write backups to
set backupdir=~/.backup
" and the backup extension
au BufWritePre * let &bex = substitute(expand('%:p:h'), '/', ':', 'g') . strftime(';%FT%T')
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