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somehow SVN choked, and i turned off time machine because i'm an idiot. total and complete user error. fuck.

s...v...n... time...machine?
I'd like these krugerrands converted into florins, please, that I might obtain voyage to Tanganyika by Zeppelin via the Belgian Congo, posthaste!

That sounds like it blows dead donkeys, though. Do you still get paid?

Originally posted by: arigato
s...v...n... time...machine?
I'd like these krugerrands converted into florins, please, that I might obtain voyage to Tanganyika by Zeppelin via the Belgian Congo, posthaste!

That sounds like it blows dead donkeys, though. Do you still get paid?

well ok, you lose some on the investment, but it's not a total loss... best of luck on no updates!

What happened to svn? Are you sure you can't get it back? Try getting help in #svn on irc.freenode.net

I have no idea what any of this means, but I know what it means to lose work because you are an idiot. Oh yes I do.

*empathizes and sympathizes*

epic recovery!

flash decompilers work! not 100% perfect, but looks like i've got a day of copy/paste instead of two-weeks of re-writing.

thank goodness, it was boring as hell the first time. the second time would have been awful, especially in the absence of getting paid.

but thank you for your empathy. i was not happy.

/turns on timemachine

Originally posted by: mclarkson
I have no idea what any of this means, but I know what it means to lose work because you are an idiot. Oh yes I do.

*empathizes and sympathizes*

I do manual back ups evrry day for every project.
Svn has at times corrupted files.

Glad your not fuckzored

Originally posted by: pyrogen
I do manual back ups evrry day for every project.
Svn has at times corrupted files.

Glad your not fuckzored

SVN == Subversion, source control software (a replacement for CVS). ALL developers should use some sort of VCS (there are plenty to choose from), but backups are also a good idea.

SVN generally works well (we've been using it here for several years without major incident) but when it goes wrong, it does tend to do so spectacularly (hence the need for backups -- preferably multiple). Glad to hear you've been able to recover at least some of the work.

You wana Git with it.

I lost a year and a half worth of work once.

Hard drive crashed in epic fashion, not even a weeklong low-level scan could detect anything readable.

It ended up costing me one client that I actually wanted to lose anyway. The only thing that really hurt was the three months worth of family photos that died with the drive.

I'm still waiting on the data recovery dudes to see if a year's worth of writing, photos, and projects are recoverable.

*feels everyone's pain*

yeah, i understand that feeling stinky. specially when its my whole domain controller that died a couple months ago.

YMMV but all my photo's worth keeping get put onto picasa. At least that way i know they are saved there.