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Dark GDK / System crash, back soon

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APEXnow
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 00:19
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Folks, I suffered a total system harddisk failure during the evening of Friday 5th October, which has basically caused me some considerable emotional stress. Thankfully I keep backups of everything, but I will need a couple of days before I am back up to full strength. Using my wife's PC to post this, so if I've not replied to emails per say, I will.

Back soon, and sorry for the absense.

Paul.


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CattleRustler
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Posted: 9th Oct 2007 17:47
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Apex if you can check your email I just sent a very very important email to you totally off topic of games/gaming/dgdk etc.

Its something you will not want to miss and it is time sensitive.
Hopefully you see this, get the email, and have a chance to check out what I sent within the next 21 hours.

CR

My DBP plugins page is now hosted [href]here[/href]
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APEXnow
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 02:59
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Thanks CR, received loud and clear

Oh, up and running again, although I need to reinstall a crock load of tools again. I'm just thankful that I backup my source and project work religiously!

Cheers all.

Paul.


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Jna99
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 12:36
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...thanks to what happened to you Apex I decided to make backups too never know when the devil will strike again! LOL

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jasuk70
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 13:19 Edited at: 10th Oct 2007 13:20
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I have a spare machine which I use for a server and a source control product called Perforce (It's free for 2 user/5 workspaces). So all my source sits on this server which gets backed up to a HP Media Vault box, so unless all3 fail at the same time I'm hoping I'm covered

And it's great to be able to sync back after accidentally deleting a chunk of code by mistake and saving and submitting the change

it can be got from http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html

Jas
p.s. it hooks into Visual Studio quite nicely.

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jason p sage
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 19:18 Edited at: 12th Oct 2007 06:32
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@Jasuk70 - sounds like a good set up you have.
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Personally - I hate source code control - just do - unless multiple people - in big environment where code reviews are necessary etc.

I avoid the Loss of everything with a pretty simply setup.

I Have a 250gig USB Harddrive ALL my data is On. That drive will never fail. (Just kidding) I have another USB Drive, like 400 gig that I use as my backup.

By simply setting up a scheduled task to launch a batch file - that uses Xcopy (to the nth degree) all my files are "Refreshed" as needed so I always at least can go back 24 hours. Xcopy have some neat switches - like - continue if error (file in use, write perm issue or something) and my favorite is update only if file has changed - (allows the script to execute pretty quick considering howmany files I have)

And like JaSuk70 - I have more than once gone into my backup to rescue something I hosed - or "roll back" something I totally messed up

Well - Good Luck Apex - glad you had backups! (Still sux trying to rebuild a complete XP install, with all your reg'd software, things like office, open office, foxit/adobe PDF readers, directX, Vis studio ... and the list goes on - Takes awhile to get "Purring" again.

Best Regards,
Jason P Sage


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APEXnow
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 20:26
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jason p sage, yeah, installing stuff again was a right pain in the _______ ____ and I'm planning to look into something like NetGear or an external storage device for such events again. Just a bite in the amount of time it takes to restore.

Jasuk, I've used perforce before, it's a very good Source Control system. Much better than SourceSafe imo. CVS is a good alternative as well if you have a decent frontend for it.

Paul.


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kBessa
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Posted: 10th Oct 2007 21:48
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Mate, I just love Subversion (SVN). Me and MudBug used with LightEngine (back in DarkEngine times), SVN server and the AnkhSVN plugin for VS, just too damn perfect! (I think I might install an svn server on my desktop to sync with the laptop).

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Niels Henriksen
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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 05:30
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I never take backup.... I just cry a lot


Niels Henriksen
Working on a (MMO)RPG right now in LightEngine
http://noggs.netopcom.dk/forum/default.asp - Forum for the game
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jasuk70
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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 11:38
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jason p sage, Mind where you put the capitals, Changes the meaning entirely

Source control has come in very useful I completely re-wrote a section of code, and later realised I had inadvertently deleted something and back it came from the source control system.

APEX, Guess what is at the back end of Perforce

I chose perforce due to the fact we use it where I work and it's got some really good tools.

Jas

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Posted: 11th Oct 2007 14:20
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oops - sorry -



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