Importance of Backups
I'd just like to stress how important backups are. The other day, about 4AM, I was working on an extremely important document. I wake up the next morning and apparently, at 4AM while I was as tired as all get out, I managed to delete this extremely important document, with no backups to be found.
Posted by Audeuro on Saturday, January 10, 2009 03:25PM
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#7 Tiberath:
Jeff8500 wrote:
> Compile often, even if you only made a little progress. It prevents you from getting mass amounts of compiler errors at once, and it saves everything.
I compile roughly every fifteen seconds. Sometimes more, sometimes less, depending on the amount of code I've written.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 06:13PM
#6 Audeuro:
Vegetassj9: Well, luckily an older version of my document was on a remote server (Gotta love git), but I still lost a few pages of work.
Rasengan3oo4: Yeah, XP Pro.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 06:03PM
#5 Andre-g1:
Jeff8500 wrote:
> Andre-g1 wrote:
> > Never happened to me with important files but it sure has happened to me a lot with games. If I advance too much in a game without saving I'm bound to get my electricity cut or crash and there goes my savefile, then I have to go back and do it all again, has happened a few times.
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> Compile often, even if you only made a little progress. It prevents you from getting mass amounts of compiler errors at once, and it saves everything.
I meant actually playing games, not developping :P I'd consider game files important files.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 04:39PM
#4 Jeff8500:
Andre-g1 wrote:
> Never happened to me with important files but it sure has happened to me a lot with games. If I advance too much in a game without saving I'm bound to get my electricity cut or crash and there goes my savefile, then I have to go back and do it all again, has happened a few times.
Compile often, even if you only made a little progress. It prevents you from getting mass amounts of compiler errors at once, and it saves everything.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 04:35PM
#3 Rasengan3oo4:
Windows XP my friend?
Saturday, January 10, 2009 04:31PM
#2 Vegetassj9:
Have you tried the Undelete Plus? It can get deleted files back.
http://undelete-plus.com/download.html
Saturday, January 10, 2009 03:52PM
#1 Andre-g1:
Never happened to me with important files but it sure has happened to me a lot with games. If I advance too much in a game without saving I'm bound to get my electricity cut or crash and there goes my savefile, then I have to go back and do it all again, has happened a few times.
Saturday, January 10, 2009 03:47PM