Grate subject line! It's so easy to forget making backup DVDs (I call those "useless diks" because I usually write them but never use them :-) )
If you're after version control, take a look at JediVCS; It's FREE and works fine. I never used any other so I can't make a comparasion, but it deffinitively works fine for my small team (3 developers). Also keep in mind there are cheep IDE RAID cards and there's "junction"! I've got a "Sefe drive" (s:) that's actually a mirror RAID array and I've "junction'ed" all of my normal working directoryes to this drive. Ofcours, this will only protect you from hardware malfunction, not from accidental deleting or viral damage. An other point to keep in mind: if the computer that host your VCS is the same as your developement machine AND on the same disk, you're not getting any level of protection... Good luck! > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:delphi-talk- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andre van Zuydam > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:46 PM > To: Delphi-Talk Discussion List > Subject: MAKE BACKUPS OF YOUR SOFTWARE!!! > > Thanks for all the feedback on the help files guys. > > I found the comments and advice encouraging - I'm not really fond of > starting the help file but once I get stuck in I'll see it through and > maybe > submit a URL so you everyone can check it out. > > I experienced a disk crash Monday which really messed up my development. > I > didn't really see it coming but managed to make a recovery of sorts (Lost > all my games, but who needs that!). So to all of you out there : > > MAKE BACKUPS OF YOUR SOFTWARE!!! > > :) > > Just thought I'd remind everyone how important those bits and bytes are to > us in this development world. > > I was interested in what you mentioned about your source control utility > Robert. I've been trying to figure out how CVS works and whether it is > any > good? I've worked with Visual Source Safe when I was contracting for > another firm but since I started my own business now I don't want to fork > out for license fees. Suggestions about versioning systems will be > welcomed > after recent experience with the crash. I have a Linux server in my > office > which I plan to use as a backup device, at this stage copying files to the > box will be the extent of my versioning. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Meek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 4:28 AM > Subject: RE: Another Topic : Open to All to participate __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
