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Misc. => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Lyx on 2005-03-14 18:26:51

Title: A story about backups
Post by: Lyx on 2005-03-14 18:26:51
http://www.jasonmhirst.co.uk/ (http://www.jasonmhirst.co.uk/)

Remake of the game parallax becomes vaporware, because the developer got a new pc, and then while restoring everything from his external backup-hdd the chips on the drive explode.

Game over, man!

- Lyx
Title: A story about backups
Post by: atici on 2005-03-14 18:30:08
A rewrite always turns out better
Title: A story about backups
Post by: Peter on 2005-03-14 18:38:20
Anyone not keeping critical data (sourcecode etc.) on at least two different devices is shooting themselves in the foot.
Laziness is not an excuse (I have a nice .bat script doing the boring part).