backup_project – CIDAtools

pull project files from remote directory

Description

Backup Project Directory

Usage

backup_project(
  path_from = getwd(),
  path_to = NULL,
  exclude = c(".DS_Store", ".Rproj.user", ".git"),
  recreate = FALSE,
  data_only = TRUE,
  readme = TRUE
)

Arguments

path_from Path from where the folders should be copied (project directory location).

path_to Path to where the folders should be copied (P drive, only used if specified).

exclude files/folders NOT to be backed up to the P-drive (useful for larger files that don’t change often). Currently not used.

recreate should backup be created from the ground up? (can take longer, but useful for projects with many changes)

data_only should only subdirs including "data" (DataRaw/ and DataProcessed/) be backed up?

readme forces backup of project readme

Details

This function backs up a CIDA project to the shared (P) CIDA drive. The backup directory can either be existing (in which only changed files/folders are updated), or nonexisting, in which case a full project backup is created.

Value

This function has verbose output to ensure the back up is working, and ultimately returns a success indicator that’s returned by file.copy.