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Questions tagged [backups]

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Effective way of keeping past projects with their working development environment?

I find that whenever I want to go run a past project, it will take a long time before I can find it and before I have everything set-up again for it to be able to run. For example, I have python projects I created in Linux, and it depends on…
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What version control system can manage all aspects?

A few months ago I dug into Subversion and GIT and was disappointed. They handle SOURCE CODE fine but not other aspects. For example, a web site under version control needs to manage file/directory ownership, file/directory read & write access,…
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What is a battery backup up cache?

I've read an article about Innodb performance optimization an in that post the author was repeatedly mentioning someting named a "battery back up cache". It is not clear for me what he was talking about and google did not help either. My guess is…
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Storing Projects on Google Drive (Cloud)

I've started using Google Drive for my cloud needs and backing up pretty much everything. I've got the app installed so it auto-sync's all my content in most things. My question is this, I am currently coding for iOS (although this applies to any…
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Using version control to manage site backups?

Last week I started making daily backups of my relatively small (~300mb) site. The backups are zipped, so it's less space, but it will quickly add up, especially as my site gets bigger. I was thinking of unzipping the latest backup, and from now on…
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How should I store an old project?

As a freelancer, I come across many projects. Its almost impossible to store a backup of all of the projects on my laptop. What are some better options to store them?
user4124
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How should i set up my source folder?

I have /src/main/ with all my code (i also have /src/online, /src/prvlibs, /src/test, etc) but now i am thinking about moving a few non active projects out of the folder. Sure i could go in and delete all objs, (some) project files, etc so it doesnt…
user2528
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Best practice for storing third party tools

Currently my company is storing the installers (and in some cases the installed directory copy) for some open source third party tools that our build uses. Were storing these files in our github repo which makes it very large and slow. I want to…
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Version control: Backup vs. publishing

The situation: Our team of developers and testers is transitioning from ClearCase to git, in some pioneering fashion. While experience with git is limited there is some familiarity with Linux, cygwin and msys; nobody is afraid of the command line,…
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How to handle shutdown/startup of a Java application that relies on real time events?

I have this Java project called Server. Server is essentially a single-threaded application that listens to events from external applications. These events are crucial and missing one is a huge deal. What Server does is that it listens to events,…
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Is it redundant and unnecessary to do file backups of a repository that has a remote repo?

Is it redundant and unnecessary to periodically backup the files in a Git repo, that also has a remote repo? My understanding is all repositories are full backups. So an individual developer with a local repo pushing to a remote repo is two full…
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Should I backup gradle dependencies to git?

I always like to backup project dependencies myself in case they can't be resolved due to a down website or because certain versions aren't available for download any more. Should I trust the maven central repository to be up and running when I try…
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Filesystem superblocks and their backup copies

I'd like to understand how (modern) filesystems are implemented and having trouble to fully understand superblocks and their backups. I reference ext4 and btrfs, but the questions may also apply to other filesystems. Ext4 stores a couple of…
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Combine auto-syncing cloud and VCS

This question brought me to another question: is there any VCS/tool for a VCS which automatically backups your source code between the last checkout and current changes? I had the problem of loosing uncommited source code changes just one week…
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When and how to commit?

I'm getting used in working with git at the moment. And I'm touching an issue that is unclear to me. I feel compelled, if I think of commiting after a change and making a documenting description. I don't know exactly when I should commit, because…
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