{"id":1663,"date":"2015-06-15T09:57:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T14:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:46:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T17:46:18","slug":"a-simple-backup-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/06\/15\/a-simple-backup-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Backup Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a number of scripts that I have been maintaining for many years. They are not in version control but I still want to make edits and be able to access the code in previous versions. So I use a simple utility that saves a version of the file to a backup folder before I make major edits.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"4161123810001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>For more information about programmatically accessing the MATLAB Editor type:<\/p>\n<p><code>&gt;&gt;help matlab.desktop.editor<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/06\/15\/a-simple-backup-utility\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/34357044-8a68-44fb-a4cb-5d7c8608a882\/52300116-60e2-4dda-a6b3-f4f28a8a806f\/640x360\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">4:16<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>I have a number of scripts that I have been maintaining for many years. They are not in version control but I still want to make edits and be able to access the code in previous versions. So I use a&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/06\/15\/a-simple-backup-utility\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}