Sounds great. My backups are stored on a hard drive here so can't be compromised but I'd love to find a way to automate it. I'll look into this later.
On 17 Sep 2014 08:21, "Colin Law" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 September 2014 07:34, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: > > I do keep regular backups however the issue is that this has been sitting > > silently for some time and changes made since the last clean backup would > > have been lost. > > A VCS is much more than a set of backups. Since the master resides > away from the website the hacks would never have got into the > repository. But even if they had somehow got there you could find the > commit that stored them, unroll just that commit (and put back any > valid changes made during that commit) and magically your master would > then be fixed without loosing changes made since then. > > Even more than that git gives you a complete history of all the > changes you have ever made, so when something stops working, but you > do not notice imediately, you can go back through the history until > you find the point at which it stopped working so that you can rapidly > find what it was you did wrong. > > Give git a go, it is trivial to setup and once you start using it you > will wonder how you ever managed without it. Seriously. There are > many tutorials on getting started. > > Colin > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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