PSA: Always back-up everything.
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I just wasted 10 hours piecing back together some assets that I accidentally deleted. These assets were already mostly finished and I just had to send them to my client who had already paid for them. I tried to use various tools to recover the lost files but most of them were already corrupt. Luckily UE4 autosaved a decent amount. I only had to spend a few hours piecing everything back together and redoing some blueprints and materials.
Ironically I usually work in Dropbox but I didn't for this project because that hard drive was almost full.
It was still quite a costly mistake as I wasted 10 hours but I could have easily lost everything and it would have cost me several days to rebuild it all.
I wouldn't wish this upon anyone so please make sure you have a functional backup system at all times.
Hard drives can fail or you can make stupid mistakes like I did. (I won't get into how it happened exactly but Windows messed up something and I have a bad habit of using shift+delete.)
Ironically I usually work in Dropbox but I didn't for this project because that hard drive was almost full.
It was still quite a costly mistake as I wasted 10 hours but I could have easily lost everything and it would have cost me several days to rebuild it all.
I wouldn't wish this upon anyone so please make sure you have a functional backup system at all times.
Hard drives can fail or you can make stupid mistakes like I did. (I won't get into how it happened exactly but Windows messed up something and I have a bad habit of using shift+delete.)
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Put a sticker with Al Lowe's greatest quote "Save early, save often!" on your monitor. Obvious visual reminders can work quite well if your software solutions fail you.
But yeah, I really need to make some better backups as well, instead of the random ones I do, every time my computer might act weird, or someone post something about (like now). Any recommendations for ways to keep regularly backups on certain folders/files that is located on different locations? Because I don't want to backup my whole harddisk, but only the important parts, however those parts are spread out on different locations.
I think trying to have a back up somewhere on the internet, plus on a hard drive is always a safe bet.
It's just trying to remember to save it and upload it to hard drives and cyberspace.
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Adobe really needs to get this integrated (although there is a free auto-back script you can run).
https://www.perforce.com/blog/140228/run-p4d-website-raspberry-pi
Sticking with P4 gives you the advantage of being able to learn the industry standard though.
It's always backing up my files, both to a local HDD and to the cloud. Easy restore, my own encryption key, unlimited versioning, never deletes backup files, etc. Set it and forget it.
It's free if you don't backup to their cloud. That would be fine if it was just one PC, but for me it's worth $12.50/mo to backup a bunch of PCs, and to use a combo of local and cloud. Some things are well worth paying for, IMHO.
I did end up upgrading my ISP from cable (4mbps up) to fiber (15mbps up) to handle the extra load. But the load is there anyhow for any continuous online backup, like Dropbox. Same monthly ISP cost anyhow.
its a meh performance/speed, not compatible with SVN ( or really hard to setup), but at least it saved me more than once.
I used experimental tool in UE , and i paid the consequences >_> ... i reverted back to 5 days ago. ( only for the scene file)
gladly i separated my scene by level streaming.
some people using drobo more expensive but better .
I once had a case where my photoshop file got corrupted while i was working on it, dropbox saved me there though! Saved me for most issues.
Still $2 a moth for 100 GB on Google Drive is a great deal, OneDrive offers Office 365 Personal w/ 1TB of storage for $7 a month, kinda the best deal for a TB out of any of the big services.