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KaVir · 12-20-2007, 06:38 AM

I make personal backups of my code every day, but back in October 2004 I managed to lose a 1500+ line code module when the Gryphonmud hosting service vanished overnight. I was warned by a Gryphonmud admin that I had 24 hours to grab whatever I needed (as they'd paid until the end of the month), but Inetsolve (which Gryphonmud was using) just pulled the plug on the machine about an hour later.

The problem was I'd forgotten to use the '-d' (directory) option when I'd grabbed the most recent version of the code from CVS, so it hadn't backed up the new directory for the module I'd recently added. It cost me four days to rewrite it all, so it's not a mistake I'd make again.

12-20-2007, 06:38 AM	#21
KaVir Legend Join Date: Apr 2002 Name: Richard Home MUD: God Wars II Posts: 2,052	Re: 4 Dimensions is moving on I make personal backups of my code every day, but back in October 2004 I managed to lose a 1500+ line code module when the Gryphonmud hosting service vanished overnight. I was warned by a Gryphonmud admin that I had 24 hours to grab whatever I needed (as they'd paid until the end of the month), but Inetsolve (which Gryphonmud was using) just pulled the plug on the machine about an hour later. The problem was I'd forgotten to use the '-d' (directory) option when I'd grabbed the most recent version of the code from CVS, so it hadn't backed up the new directory for the module I'd recently added. It cost me four days to rewrite it all, so it's not a mistake I'd make again.