The Bearer Of Bad News

[Peter Haworth]

I use Time machine for local backups and all my LC dev files are on Google
Drive so I feel pretty comfortable with recovering any stack files I need.

There's another level of recovery I made available in lcStackBrowser.  It's
not made for backups per se, more in the way of keeping temporary versions
of a stack while you're working on it.  I called them checkpoints rather
than backups for that reason.

For example, I can save a version of a stack right before I start making
major changes to it, along with a comment as to why I made it.
 lcStackBrowser displays an icon next to stacks that have checkpoints and
shows me a list of them along with the date and time and any associated
comment.  So if I decide I don't want to proceed with my changes or just
that I need to take a different approach, I can simply rollback to my
checkpoint.

Another way I use them is to automatically make a checkpoint every time I
save the file, with or without a comment.  I've learned the hard way that
it's a good idea to do frequent saves in LC!  So if I get a hard hang in
LC, perhaps because of an error in a modal stack, I can quit LC, restart
and rollback to the last working checkpoint.

Many other checkpoint options too, like automatic checkpoints every n
minutes.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and
SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html>

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:

> Solutions like dropbox are good, but would either need you to manually
> back things up, or maybe an Automator script to copy important files over.
> With Time Machine I have a less than one hour old backup of any file I
> might need, not just the ones that I think I will need, or remembered to
> copy somewhere else.
>
> I solved the issue of having the backup drive at home by having a matching
> drive at the office. So, in addition to having a one hour old backup with
> me, I have a less than a day old backup in another location.
>
>
> > On Oct 24, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Very good suggestion. I do have a time machine backup, but it is not in
> the office, it is at home so I can lose a days worth of changes that way. I
> will look into that.
>
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