[simpits-tech] So who....

[Brian Sikkema]

That right there is a good plan. I won't be able to do the exact same thing, 
but I'll figure something out.

As for a hard drive recovery company, as some people have suggested, I 
simply dont have the ability to part with my system for that long, or the 
money to pay for it. Every spare dollar I'm getting right now is going for 
my PPL. If I don't get it before I leave for a month end of June, I've gotta 
re-take the written, because that will expire while I'm gone. And I've 
dinked with it enough now that I'm pretty much resigned to having lost it. 
Bleh. Buttloads of work, but I just keep telling myself, I can make it even 
better this time. Not bloody likely, but I can hope. Maybe I'll find a way 
to make that Antenna housing with fewer poly's, that model was almost a meg 
in Orbiter's mesh format. Just the little antenna housing! It was gorgeous, 
though.... *sigh* But for the time being, I've gotta hunt down drivers for 
all my hardware. I had to pull my NIC out just to see what it was, it's been 
so long I couldn't remember. I knew it was 3/Com, after that... Anywho.

Learn from my mistakes!!

BACKUPS GOOOD.....
SCANDISK BAAAAD....
UNDO DISK GOOOD....
DINKING BAAAAD....
DRINKING GOOOD....
NAPSTER BAAAAD....
FIRE BAAAAD!!! FIRE BAAAAAAAAD!!!

Brian

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Stuart Whelan" <stuart@simhardware.co.nz>
Reply-To: simpits-tech@simpits.org
To: <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
Subject: [simpits-tech] So who....
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 21:43:10 +1200

Has made an extra backup today because of this?

*raises hand*

I once lost about 3 years worth of coding to a small bug in the Windows
ME boot loader.

Included in that was a suite of utils I was writing for EA Games for
688I attack sub.

It was awesome stuff.

I lost all the source code, and the project stopped dead in the water.

I am not ashamed to say that I wept. Now I have this backup system:

Each morning all my source code is sync'd between my home machine and my
laptop.

Each evening at 16:50, all my source code is copied to the corprate file
server, zipped with the current date and backed up to tape.

Every Wednesday I back up all my source code to a CDW, label it, verify
it in another CDROM Drive, then file it in my filing cabnet

As well as this all my source code is in Source Safe version control,
also based on a backed up corprate server.

The only reason I lose stuff now is when I run the wrong script and sync
my stuff in the wrong direction... Doh!

I feel for you Brian!

Cheers!
Stuart.

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