Backup Tree

Cross platform Vim plugin that provides timestamped backups in a parallel directory tree.

For example if you save the file /home/user/.vimrc it will be backed up in /home/user/.vim_backup/home/user/.vimrc_2018-02-08-10 with the timestamp format being YYYY-MM-DD-HH.

Usage

Enable Vim's built in backup feature and Backup Tree will take care of the rest.

set backup

" Optionally set the location of your backup tree (defaults to ~/.vim_backup)
let g:backup_tree = '~/.vim_backup_tree"

• :BackupTree
  • Opens the directory g:backup_tree in a vertical split
• :BackupTreeCurrent
  • Opens the directory in g:backup_tree that corresponds to your current buffers directory