How do you back-up?
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
I'm in a team-work, so I use Visual SourceSafe. It backs up and enables versioning on my codes. So I have a back up, history and somewhere to rollback whenever an error occurs.
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Michael P Butler wrote:
How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files.
I have a script that backs up my Subversion repository every day, to a second drive on the server. Once a week it also makes a copy to a zip drive (250 meg). Every once and a while I manually use Sync Toy to back up the primary server drive to a second one. Nothing important is stored locally. :)
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
At home, I have all my important stuff on a 4GB partition. I back it up frequently to an old laptop, and to an old server via FTP using a freeware program called SyncBack(v3.2.9). I also bought a pack of DVD-RWs, and burn a copy every 2 weeks or so, rotating 3 discs. I usually do a burn to DVD-R once a month. Eventually I plan on buying an external HDD, or maybe an internal with a RAID controller. "My dog worries about the economy. Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost seven dollars in dog money" - Wacky humour found in a business magazine
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I'm in a team-work, so I use Visual SourceSafe. It backs up and enables versioning on my codes. So I have a back up, history and somewhere to rollback whenever an error occurs.
mohammad272005 wrote:
I'm in a team-work, so I use Visual SourceSafe. It backs up and enables versioning on my codes. So I have a back up, history and somewhere to rollback whenever an error occurs.
I use SourceGear Vault and I back-up the SQL server data and log files to CD. What do you use to back-up SourceSafe? Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Michael P Butler wrote:
How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files.
I have a script that backs up my Subversion repository every day, to a second drive on the server. Once a week it also makes a copy to a zip drive (250 meg). Every once and a while I manually use Sync Toy to back up the primary server drive to a second one. Nothing important is stored locally. :)
S Douglas wrote:
Once a week it also makes a copy to a zip drive (250 meg).
I never had much luck with zip-drives. I had two and they both died fairly quickly. I'm thinking about getting an external hard-disk to back-up my code and then take it off-site. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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S Douglas wrote:
Once a week it also makes a copy to a zip drive (250 meg).
I never had much luck with zip-drives. I had two and they both died fairly quickly. I'm thinking about getting an external hard-disk to back-up my code and then take it off-site. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Michael P Butler wrote:
I had two and they both died fairly quickly.
[Knock on wood] mine works pretty well, had I known about all the troubles people had with them when I bought it I wouldn’t have. Getting an external drive is on my list of things to get. I may end up taking the cheap route and just get a drive enclosure and put one the now extra internal drives I have laying around in it.
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
For my personal projects, I RAR the code up with encryption and it's emailed automatically to one of my on-line accounts. Happens automatically if my machine is switched on at 23:00 and something in the source-tree has been updated. I wanted to make it incremental, but at the moment it is always a full backup.... tend to be about 1Mb. I could back up individual projects too.. but I seem to always backup my "development" directory/folder as a whole. Regards, Ray
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
I've created a little utility to backup all my data every day at 7.30 pm to a dedicated hard disk. Never used CDs or DVDs because I've really too much stuff to backup (checked now: 18.2 GB!). ___________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA]
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S Douglas wrote:
Once a week it also makes a copy to a zip drive (250 meg).
I never had much luck with zip-drives. I had two and they both died fairly quickly. I'm thinking about getting an external hard-disk to back-up my code and then take it off-site. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
I am with you 100% on this one Michael. There was a time when I thought zip drives were just the cat's meow. Then I archived some stuff - and I mean genuinely archived. Data was stored on a couple of virgin zips, meticulously verified, then the discs were carefully stored in cases in what was essentially a clean server room environment - temp and humidity controlled, protected from light, no magnetic sources even close. About 9 months or so later I found I needed some things. Pulled out the discs - still exactly where I had put them, still in pristine condition. One was just shy of a total loss, the other one had data corruption problems that resulted in maybe 70% recovery of the source. The zip drive went into a box - I still have it for some reason that is no good reason, but I've never used one since. I am astonished every time I see someone use one now. Never again. No way!
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
We use SourceSafe (now, now, don't start), so here's our backup procedure:
- Our corporate IT guys backup our data base, since it sits on their server. In a recovery effort, this would be our last ditch, since they only do an incremental backup nightly.
- For our purposes, every night, we zip the entire data base into a file named with the date and time.
- Ten of those files are kept on our build machine, and those files are copied to a separate box.
- Most of our group backup their working files, either to the corporate network or to our build machine.
- Product builds are backed up to CD automatically by the build process (see my post yesterday in the Soapbox for a noted exception :mad: ).
The cardinal rules of doing backups are pretty simple. Do it consistently; do it often. Verify you can recover data from a backup, and verify you can recover everything you need. Keep multiple copies in separate locations.
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
I don't use source control, (only because I've never learned how to set it up properly), and I work from a laptop full-time. I do DVD-R backups of what I call my "essentials" almost nightly, and then use Symantec's Ghost app to make a drive image to an old PC (via firewire) once a week or more. Trevor
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Michael P Butler wrote:
How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files.
The source code is backed up to the source-control system across the network, to a server a few buildings away. the source-code and most work areas are copied to my home system as a backup, backed up on USB disk at work, and backed up on USB disk at home. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Michael P Butler wrote:
I currently write my code to CD's every-week
Week!:omg: So you have the potential of losing up to a weeks worth of work? That's scary to say the least. I have a batch file and winzip command line version that does a snapshot of my current work to the server from my workstation. The batch file keeps the last 20 snapshots and I run it whenever I feel like I've done something I don't want to have to do again so several times a day. Every day at the end of the day I do a comprehensive backup to zip files which are copied up to the server and burn them to a CD which is taken offsite. And every night there is an automatic tape backup at the server.
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I'm in a team-work, so I use Visual SourceSafe. It backs up and enables versioning on my codes. So I have a back up, history and somewhere to rollback whenever an error occurs.
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Michael P Butler wrote:
How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files.
I have a script that backs up my Subversion repository every day, to a second drive on the server. Once a week it also makes a copy to a zip drive (250 meg). Every once and a while I manually use Sync Toy to back up the primary server drive to a second one. Nothing important is stored locally. :)
And if the building were to burn down? What then? If you don't take a backup offsite you're flirting with disaster. I used to be a network tech and you'd be surprised how often buildings burn down or computers get stolen or some other disaster in waiting. If you don't separate your backup from the computers your backing up you only have half a backup.
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How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files. I currently write my code to CD's every-week, but wonder if there are some better alternatives which are just as cost-effective. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Michael P Butler wrote:
How do you back-up your source-code and other essential files.
I use CVS on my server, located 2000 miles away in Texas. Once up there, I then keep both my dev systems updated. So, if I lose one dev system (which as happened), I can continue with the other. If the house burns down and I lose both, I have a remote backup. If a nuclear war wipes out the entire country, well then, who cares, right? Marc Pensieve