OpenEuphoria

Backups

• Posted by kbochert at ix.netcom.com Mar 25, 2002
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Backups are for wimps! 

I thought it might amuse you folks to hear that I am a
long-term programmer who does not use backups.
I don't use an autosaving editor or a UPS. The rare backups
that I have made have never been used.

I do save my edit files frequently, and on the rare times
that Windows crashes, I might lose as much as 20 minutes
of edits, but I find they are so fresh in my mind that I can
recreate them in 5 minutes (and do them more cleanly besides).

I also use Qwin to create an audit trail of software versions
and this has enabled me to back out of an ill-advised change,
but has never been used to recover from a system failure.

I guess it helps to be on friendly terms with the hardware 

Karl Bochert

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