PHP files and Windows Vista Backups
Friday, March 14th, 2008I being a web developer (amongst other things!) take great care to back up my PC daily, as I have thousands of lines of code belonging to numerous websites that i need to be able to work on and update.
My workstation runs Vista Home Premium. Now really should have Vista Business but its a long story that I am not going to go into here why I have Home premium.
I do my backups two ways, I run Sync Toy every day to an external drive and I run Windows Vista Backup to an internal drive.
Following a recent crash with my Raid array (a striped set) I went to restore my user data from a back up. I was surprised to find that none of my files with php extensions were there.
Fortunately I had the copies from by Sync Toy images so I was OK but its worth stating that unless all your interested in is the back up of “personal” files- ie images, mp3s and common file extension docs like xls or doc files you cannot rely on the back up tool for Vista to save you. Somewhat oddly it does save html files- probably due to the fact that many programs can generate html files as an output format, that are not deemed as “professional” file types.
Be warned!


