Backup your brain

[robinbloke]

Well just slapped myself for forgetting one of the oldest things in the programming book; not backing up.
I'd made some changes to some code to stop a crash but hadn't checked the files into the version manager - worse still I hadn't checked the files onto the backup CD. Big fat DOH.
Still redone the code, checked it and now recompiling the next binary, which only takes around 45 mins.
Object lesson for me to remember in the future I think.
Well at least it enabled me to redo some coding, I hate mucking around with static pointers, such a pain in the arse; still with a bit of fiddling it's probably better than I implemented it before, although how will I know? Gone to the winds it is.
Now for the joy and fun of relabelling the archives so that they're all correct including the release I missed.
Doh once again.

Comments

[borange.livejournal.com]

you fool!!

heh well happens to us all sometimes
(tho last itme summat similar happened it was someone else's responsibility to
back stuff up grrr....)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Well I usually keep a copy of the code on my hard drive, back it up to CD and archive it into our version management tool; but this time the release was cancelled before it went out, so all the backups got pushed aside and rushed.
Bah. Won't do that again.