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Peter
Peter

Reputation: 5131

How can i back up projects/code in Eclipse/Android

Ive been using eclipse and my-eclipse to code android and Java projects. I want to be able to back up my code. I know there is a way to back up code so that i can retrieve not only entire projects but changes and old versions but I cant figure out what the software is called and cant find any that are free and easy to implement. Any help would be great!

EDIT: I don't have a server, can any of these be set up to save locally?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1261

Answers (5)

Sasha O
Sasha O

Reputation: 3749

One more vote for using a VCS: in addition to back up you are getting control and some degree of methodology in your project.

Centralized solutions like CVS, SVN and Perforce mostly require setup and maintenance (some of them can run on flat files but these configurations are less popular). I would also consider one of the "Big Tree" distributed VCS Git, Mercurial and Bazaar.

Mercurial seem to have strong Eclipse plugin

Upvotes: 0

fauxriginal
fauxriginal

Reputation: 58

Any of the plugins mentioned here will do, but I'm using the Subclipse plugin and a free repository at Assembla right now. I only switched from Mercurial because I started using Subversion at work.

If you don't have a server, you can try a free configuration at Assembla.com (http://www.assembla.com/catalog/tag/Free) for either Subversion or Git, and I've used Bitbucket.org in the past for hosting projects with Mercurial. Even the free configurations should be enough for your needs. I divided mine up between multiple projects.

Upvotes: 2

Igor
Igor

Reputation: 2659

You may look to use the Subclipse package for Eclipse to use it with SVN. It permits you to keep/track/rollback changes and so.

The second option works fine if you need immediate result is to use Dropbox. It is easy to configure and easy to share the folders among multiple computer.

Upvotes: 0

Ernest Friedman-Hill
Ernest Friedman-Hill

Reputation: 81724

Subversion (at subversion.tigris.org) is one excellent package; there are many others. There are excellent Subversion plugins for Eclipse (google "Subclipse".)

Upvotes: 0

EboMike
EboMike

Reputation: 77762

I think you'll want to use version control software. There are great solutions out there - CVS, SVN, Git, Perforce. Most of them integrate nicely into Eclipse.

Developing software without VCS is unthinkable to me.

Upvotes: 4

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