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How do you backup your code / source control? (lemmy.zip)
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Most companies rely on a SaaS based source control solution (GitHub, ADO, GitLabs, Codeberg, etc.). While this helps with issues are code loss from an individual POV (your laptop dies, you delete something). How do you back it up at scale should something happen to the service?

I know people, rightfully, joke about GitHub’s uptime, but what if it were to go hard down for an extended period of time?

So lemmings, how would you back up an organization’s source control?

Edit: a lot of people are focusing on personal or home. I’m wondering about corporate level without having on-premise resources.

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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

“Back up” is the verb and “backup” is the noun. I only bring this up because I’m constantly finding this problem in software written where I work too.

[–] who@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago

Also, I had to read OP's second sentence five times before I could start to make sense of it. A comma would have helped a lot there.

[–] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not positive, but wouldn't "back" be the verb and "up" be an adverb?

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

It’s what happens to phrasal verbs when they become nouns and adjectives. I couldn’t find a great source other than this writing tip, but “back up” altogether makes up a phrasal verb.

English is rather notorious for having these phrases that when translated directly don’t make any sense: the words on their own are rather meaningless and have to be taken together to derive the meaning:

  • speak up (verb)
  • slow down (verb) → slowdown (noun)
  • shut down (verb) → shutdown (noun)
  • piss off

For example, I can’t translate “speak up” to “hablar arriba” in Spanish, that makes absolutely no sense.

[–] shynoise@beehaw.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Implies that we're missing "speakups" and "pissoffs".

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 19 hours ago

English is rather notorious for having these phrases

English is essentially just a whole bunch of corner cases that its speakers agree on. Mostly.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I appreciate a grammar buff. 🙏💛