Re: An appeal to your better nature

> Forgive me to ask, but how come that you don't have much copies of your > work? Do you work straight on your server? I do, via WinSCP (now). This normally would be fine, except I haven't made any backups. Doh. > I've got my editor (UltraEdit Studio) setup, that it makes a backup of the > file I'm editing every 5 minutes with a timestamp and the full path. Besides > that, we use SVN (wich is not that difficult to setup and manage). Yes, fortunately my PEAR stuff is all fine since it is in (unsurprisingly) PEAR cvs. > So, if your server is your food (so to speak), you'd better take a look at > the simple things that might rescue you some day. Nowadays there are little > NAS devices with RAID-0 support (like My Books from Western Digital), that > gives a good backup solution for a quick buck. Off course, you can always > step up to better solutions and methods..... I think from now on I'll be doing a million backups a day. Or, alternatively, one. > Doesn't your hosting provider has a backup facility? My hosting provider is 1and1. Cheap but, well, nuff said I think. > Maybe rent another > webserver (could be virtual) and mirror it with rsync? I don't know..... > there must be something that suits your needs..... That would work well I think. > I wouldn't like to loose my stuff, but I can't afford much for the best > solutions either. It's not that my job depends on it, but personal data is a > big loss too. Losing stuff sucks donkey d***. -- Richard Heyes http://www.phpguru.org