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One of the reasons I love distributed version control systems.
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:brrrrr: Sends a shiver up my spine!
Don't rely on Version Control as a backup system - or at least not as your primary backup - it can help if you lose everything else, but it's a dangerous way to go. The repository is not automatically "protected" in any way, and if the drive holding the repo fails, or the file gets corrupted - and we all know that happens - you are up the well known creek!
By all means use VC as an addition to good solid backups (heck, I do!) but it should be an addendum, not the primary.
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OriginalGriff wrote: By all means use VC as an addition to good solid backups (heck, I do!) but it should be an addendum, not the primary.
That!
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Phew! I was getting worried there! 
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No worries, I'm a completely different kind of stupid.
But honestly, it has saved me a whole days work once. Because of automatic thing that weren't.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: love distributed version control systems.
Do you also have a backup distributed version control too?
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Checking backups is for cowards only.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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My employer falls under the category of a financial institution. In the US, they are required by law, regardless of any other backups, and off-site backup.
It's like I point out to people all the time: if you have a backup of your systems and a backup of the backup - and they're all in your home and it burns to the ground (or hurricane sandy visits) then you lose the data, the backup, and the backup-backup. All nod their head in agreement. Few over do more than nod.
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There's a second part to all of this, too. Make sure your backups can actually be restored.
I've been in the unfortunate position of knowing my backups are running fine (since I checked them regularly), but when D-Day arrived, the tapes were unreadable.
Didn't have a sinking feeling in my gut that day. It was more of a black-hole-opening-in-my-gut feeling. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: This is why I have backups of my backups
So you're backing up a backup that might itself be corrupted? Or are you first verifying the backup is usable?
My original files get backed up twice. I don't create the secondary backup from the first.
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My original files get backed up, and I periodically do test restores to a spare HDD to make sure they work - that also tests my bootable USB and it's backup. The backup then gets copied so I have an "on-site" and "off-site" copy (because it could take a while to get the off-site one back if I need it, unless I want to spend time going there and getting it).
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Got a customers computer that is now giving me the above mentioned issue. I have tried the following fix - https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/958044[^] and still have this one to try - https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/971058[^]
Initially the problem was YouTube freezing and the inability of installing a GM repairers program. Fixed YouTube by cleaning out browser and system temporary files. Fixed program installation by finding that Windows Module Installer service was disabled. Enabled and all was good.
A bucket load of Windows Updates were installed on 31-08-2016 and 02-09-2016 but yesterday (05-09-2016) the error appeared and no Windows Updates will install.
Besides Repair Installing or Reinstalling Windows 7, does anyone have another clue they can point me towards?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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All browsers or just IE/Edge ?
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W∴ Balboos wrote: All browsers or just IE/Edge ?
After more remote testing and fixing tonight I had her test it. She only used Firefox even though I asked for IE as well. Then I'm informed it's the whole computer that freezes.
None of this was explained when on site last week for 6 hours. I was explicit in my questions. The computer had no issues (besides Windows Module Installer) while I was there.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: I was explicit in my questions.
When Mrs. Wife needs my help and I ask explicit questions I'm soon referred to as the "District Attorney" and as often as not a fight will ensue.
I think it may be a good idea to have, when it comes to fixing computer problems, some sort of (KSS!) wife-swapping with programmers. Rumor has it they're nicer to strangers.
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Sometimes doing the following fixes a host of problems:
0. Run "services.msc"
1. Stop "Windows Update Service"
2. Stop "Background Intelligent Transfer Service"
3. Delete the directory: C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution
4. Open Control Panel - Windows Update (it will say it has never gotten updates, that info was stored in the deleted directory)
5. Get updates.
6. Be happy
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Thanks. One of the first things I did. Didn't fix it.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Bummer. Try "format c:". Always good.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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How about:
1. Don't worry.
2. Be happy.
No updates means no new breakages. You can get security fixes without wupdate.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The reason is that the executable has the same name for every version of VS - devenv.exe... The update process blocks that...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: Haven't done much work in the last 40 minutes or so  , and I'll be careful in the future not to let any VS update to run unless I'm just about to go home.
Seriously, it's your work tool, right? Nothing wrong with updating that on your work time rather than your spare time... 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: Nothing wrong with updating that on your work time
Indeed, which is why I allowed the update to run.
But had I known it would block me out for 40 minutes, I'd much rather do it as the last thing at work so that I could start the update and go home.
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And then come in tomorrow to find it did 2% and now wants you to click "OK" three times?
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