What's Your Backup Strategy?

Recently, I was working on my afore-mentioned forthcoming Android game. I currently purpose Subversion, coupled alongside TortoiseSVN, locally on my evolution laptop for alter management. So if I acquire to a enterprise indicate where I'm happy alongside my changes, I tin commit them to my local repository. Then if I afterwards endeavor something novel too don't similar my latest move I tin simply revert dorsum to the final "golden" build.

But at that spot is a certainly danger inward this evolution flow. As I mentioned, I'm using Subversion locally on my evolution laptop. And every right away too then, I acquire a sneaking suspicion that my laptop is simply waiting to decease on me correct earlier I commit a large chunk of code alongside the well-nigh amazing changes I've e'er made! So what is a pitiable indie game developer to do?

In the past, collaborating alongside a squad on a small-scale PC game, my squad used a commercial hosting plan. So our code was committed to a remote repository too that worked every bit our off-site backup. But for my small-scale Android game, I didn't genuinely desire to pay for hosting OR purpose an open-source repository. So I've genuinely been using the much lower-tech method of zipping upwardly my code folder too storing occasional backups on DropBox or my Google Drive. That gets the labor done; I simply worry I may non last doing that oftentimes enough, too similar I said the laptop could select to laissez passer on upwardly on whatever given day. One affair I've learned over the years is "Save early, Save often." too to non trust hardware, because it volition permit y'all downwards when y'all to the lowest degree aspect it.

So what's YOUR backup strategy? Leave a comment to permit me know! But excuse me... I demand to go, uh... brand approximately other backup... :)

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