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Just a helpful reminder to backup your source code, right now.

I recently had a harddrive crash, and spent the past few days trying to recover as much data as possible. Luckily, I was able to salvage my OS source code, and the source to my other projects.

Don't think it wont happen to you... through stupid actions of my own, I've managed to destroy/lose large portions of my OS code -- twice.

This is also a question to others; I'm curious which source/revision control systems people are using out there (if any at all?). I'm using CVS, which was also intended to act as a backup of my source code however (stupidly) both my source and the CVS repository were on the same HD

Cheers,
Jeff

I have a set of Subversion repositories set up on my server machine.
Once in a while I backup the repositories to an external USB disk.
Which is quite nice... I noticed that when the server's harddisk crashed.

And yes... accidents have happened to me too. I've lost everything a couple of times. :'( It's not nice to start from scratch when you had a working system just a short while ago.

*backs up subversion repository...*

Hehe, another problem is if your system gets too high voltage during a lighting storm ...