Thursday, 6 May 2010

Bad news

Oops... seems like I've lost part of the demo when I foolishly deleted some files yesterday. Serves me right for storing everything in a directory called "temp".

Oh well, it's frustrating but we'll survive. :-(
Posted by at
Labels:

9 comments:

  1. Giuliano6 May 2010 at 03:08

    GetDataBack! http://www.runtime.org/

    If you didn't make too much changes to the FS, after the deletion...



    ciao,

    --

    Giuliano

    ReplyDelete
  2. navis6 May 2010 at 03:26

    unfortunately non of these would work. I deleted 2 gbs and added 3 straight away.

    Very foolish.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Anonymous6 May 2010 at 03:41

    It's now that you realise you can just restore from a backup. You do have backups, right? If not, you might find next time you've lost the whole demo, and perhaps a ton of more important stuff.

    External hdd + daily incremental backups (or even hourly, which is what I get, with very little downside).

    ReplyDelete
  4. Tag6 May 2010 at 04:24

    Hehe, i prefer a little suversion server, backups+versions all in one! Can we ask for anything better?

    ReplyDelete
  5. Anonymous6 May 2010 at 05:04

    On the plus side, you now get to rewrite that part and do all the things you wished you did the first time :)

    ReplyDelete
  6. Joakim Eriksson6 May 2010 at 05:12

    I can recommend www.crashplan.com. A sourcecontrol system is a very good thing but doesnt protect against cases where your working on features for a longer time and brainstorm ideas that aren't fit for checkin yet.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Anonymous6 May 2010 at 12:31

    honestly, use version control. Backup your repository as well (for those unexpected hardware failures) but do not rely on stuff not checked in (it is a PITA to get a consistent older version or back out a feature from a bunch of older backups, but version control systems have features for it).

    And "not fit for checkin" does not exist - if your code does not compile for days, you might try different development styles - and if you do experimental stuff/brainstorming: that's what private branches or shelves are for in source control. Don't forget that you can always revert/remove old features, so do not be shy to commit experimental code to your private branch.

    [curious whether sceneid.net works for blogspot now...]

    ReplyDelete
  8. JaK6 May 2010 at 12:55

    http://www.visualsvn.com/server/
    fast'n'go everywhere easy to configure svn server.

    ReplyDelete
  9. IRL6 May 2010 at 18:39

    that's me.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)