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A tangent: Places I've worked with no source control and "we'll fix it live" often lack reliable backups. A failed hard drive was an existential business risk.
by andrewf 9y ago
A tangent: Places I've worked with no source control and "we'll fix it live" often lack reliable backups. A failed hard drive was an existential business risk.
I recommend making sure you have a disaster recovery plan in place. Essentially, do you have up-to-date and reliable copies of things off site, and a documented way (which you've tested!) to get your stuff back up and running using only those copies.
- hodder 9y agoCorporate IT backs up all of our files every day to multiple servers, so that isn't a huge issue (yet at least).