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No backups?
by TowerTall 5y ago
No backups?
- hulitu 5y agoReal programmers don't make backups.
- mrlonglong 5y agoReal programmers throw their source code out onto the internet.
- efreak 5y agoReal programmers don't keep source code.
- salamander014 5y agoReal programmers leave for more pay before somebody asked about backups.
- dspillett 5y agoPerhaps the backups are a separate process, run beforehand or after this process once several changes (perhaps to several files) have been made, so not backing up intermediate states?
- whirlwin 5y agoBackups should be handled by an external process, otherwise, your script also needs to take into account: - Number of backups to retain and cleaning up old versions - Monitoring of backups. What if backing up fails? - The script itself can tamper with the backups unintentionally? Speaking from (bad) experience