Re: backup files on mounted filesystems

[Michael Bane]

On 12 Apr 2013, at 15:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Michael Bane <michael.bane@manchester.ac.uk>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:29:49 +0100
>> 
>> I've noticed that I do not seem to get automatic backup files if I am on a 
>> mounted filesystem (eg /tmp). Is there a setting for enabling this 
>> functionality?
> 
> Not mounted filesystems, but specifically /tmp, because it's a place
> where you place temporary files.

As well as /tmp (on whichever OS I have tried) I also see this issue on MacOS 
where work/ is a mounted (encrypted) filesystem

Thanks, Michael

> 
> To customize this, define your own function instead of
> normal-backup-enable-predicate, and set backup-enable-predicate to
> that function.
>