See DesignDoc for an overview of how to write a design document.
-Our design documents are now kept in a shared Google Drive folder. To protect against their loss we're making regular backups everything in the "HTCondor Design Documents" folder. _Other documents are not backed up_ (although you can easily adapt these instructions to do so).
+Our design documents are now kept in a shared Google Drive folder. To protect against their loss we're making regular backups everything in the "HTCondor Design Documents" folder. _Other documents are not backed up_ (although you can easily adapt these instructions to do so, and see "Google Takeout" below).
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8: Your download should automatically start; if it doesn't click the link "click here to download".
9: Save the download into /p/condor/gittrac-backups/design-documents . The filename should look something like HTCondor_Design_Documents-2013-09-21.zip with the current date in the last part in year-month-date order. If the name doesn't name, change it to do so.
10: _In a different folder_, unzip the archive and open at least one of the files to ensure it looks plausibly correct. You can delete the unzipped files afterward; we're just keeping the zip archive as a backup.
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+{section: Google Takeout}
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+Google Takeout allows bulk export of all of your Google Drive files, as well as many other things in Google's cloud storage. This is a good way to back up your own files. Unfortunately it captures everything, so is a poor fit for backing up the design documents because it will include unrelated documents in Drive. It also doesn't work with multiple logins, which can be nuisance (you'll need to log out of all Google accounts except your UW Google Apps account).
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+Documentation on using Google Takeout with your UW Google Apps account can be found at http://researchdata.wisc.edu/tools/tools-google-takeout/
