Mark Wendt wrote: > > Ooops! Thank goodness for backups, right? Right? ;-) > > And slap silly the person who wrote the software that didn't create the > files with date/time stamp info in the file name, relying rather on > VMS's numbered versioning to differentiate between the files. Numbered > versioning was designed for folks editing files and having prior > versions around in case the new files hosed something. > > My rule for purging was to do it only when i was sure I had a working > version of a command procedure, document, or whatever I was working on. > Never, ever, ever rely on versioning to differentiate between different > files. ;-) > Yup, that was my fault for using such a crude procedure. And, we only did backups once a week on Friday night. I'm sure the disaster had to have happened on Friday afternoon, to maximize data loss.
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