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Public Service Announcement: Backing Up
- Source Control: See Below :-)
- Small files: Use free cloud services
- Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud drive
- Photos: Use Facebook/Google Photos
- Other Large Files: Use a private service and link friends/familys' computers
- Syncthing, Bittorrent Sync
Book of the Show
- Jason: Kobolds Ate My Baby
- Patrick: Firefight
Tool of the Show
Source Control / Version Control
- Overview
- History of each file in the code base
- Keep backup of work (ability to roll back changes)
- Lock vs Merge
- Work on several files in parallel
- Pros
- Don’t have to manually merge
- Don’t have to use ftp/email to keep resources in sync
- Can easily rewind time and keep track of branches
- Ability to apply bug fixes without adding new features (branches)
- Uses file differences to reduce space
- Cons
- Needs to keep entire history (sometimes even on every client)
- Not designed for large files
- Github Large File Storage
- Not designed for archiving
- Use syncthing / bittorrent sync / dropbox / rsync
- History
- 90’s
- Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
- Rational Clearcase
- Microsoft SourceSafe
- Razor
- 2000’s
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Subversion
- 2005 - present
- Git
- Mercurial
