test your backups, people

jcarmody · ‎09-19-2025

We tell people to use source code control. This week I tried to commit changes to my vendor's SVN server only to have the connection fail. A quick email and I find that the RAID in the server hosting my repo has failed and they're rebuilding it. A few days later and they haven't yet completed the rebuild, but told me that their backup is no good and the only copy of my code is the code I have right now. So much for history.

Jim
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santo_13 · ‎09-19-2025

And hence a reliable IT provider or a team is the backbone of your projects.

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Taggart · ‎09-29-2025

Good reason to consider switching to Git. If you cloned the repo you would have the total history.

still no excuse for not testing your backs although honestly that is probably far more common than you would think. One of the many things that we all know we should do but never actually do…

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