BACKUP YOUR GAMES IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS!

[provost]

I apologize if this thread doesnt quite meet the criteria for this section,

I just wanted people to know how important it is to backup your game in full every time you edit it! 

I almost lost about 3 months worth of work because I had a hardware failure last night.  Luckily, I just bought a cheapie computer from work that I wanted to see if the game would run on it, so I copied over the entire tree of the game including source.  It was my only copy outside my local machine that wasnt over 3 months old!

Please don't be forced to turn your projects into abandonware because of a major setback like this!

[Ashen]

Hmm.
I don't think this DOES belong here - it's not a question, and it's not purely AGS related (backing up is surely good practice on long term projects, of any type). It IS good sound advice though.
I'm sure there are a few similarly threads floating round General Discussion and other places that confirm this (and I remember a few GiP threads that end with the game lost to hardware failure).

Is that 'abandonware', though? I thought that was COMPLETED games/other software no longer supported by their makers, not projects abandoned before they were finished.