Backup Project Directory — backup

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.

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

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.