Mjordan2nd

If you don't notice what's wrong with the following, look again carefully. It's there:

*sigh*...I seem to have lost 3 hours of work. Good thing I backed up every once in a while, at least. I am unbelievably irritated right now.

(Note...I've been up all night long working on this. Procrastination is a bad thing.)

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Ooble

Ouch. I've done similarly stupid things in the past... I hope you managed to recreate it.

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Infinite Recursion

Man, that sucks. Good thing you had a backup.

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Jimbo

ouch :o

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milot

wow!!! :o too bad, but it's perfect sometimes to have backups

Mjordan2nd

I'm definitely going to make a habit out of backing up my code a lot more often from now on. I lost my work at 8:17 AM. Last time I had backed it up was 5:30ish. Sadly, I had spent that entire time working diligently. In retrospect, I wish I had slept.

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Jimbo

source control ftw...

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Polyphemus_

That's why I'm gonna love the next version of Mac OS so much... Time machine automatically backs up all your files each day (on a seperate disk).

Jimbo

Daily backups won't help you get back the last couple hours of work. Can't be hard to set up daily backups on any system though.

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DaWei

The industry's been doing daily backups since before the advent of the PC; Apple isn't inventing anything new. The .tar extension actually stands for 'tape archive'. As Jim says, though, that won't help you for the last few hours work, though. Oddly enough, I rarely protect my coding, but I always set a timed backup for large documents or when I'm doing CAD work.

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