Artemis CH6 - "7 days"

Quick (probably not lol) check-in!

Reviewing things for this update. A few more re-renders, some tweaks to timings for the micro-animations, few more typo corrections, etc. But mostly focusing on finishing the animations which have been really fun to work on. Last night I spent most the evening reviewing the soundtrack and really enjoying the music this chapter, particularly in certain scenes.

There was one mini scare I had this week. I was working on an animation and sent it off to render while I review other things for this update. I checked the folder to my server and noticed I couldn't open the first frame. I remoted into my server and noticed there was an error that it couldn't write the render onto the disk. Checked on my NAS OS and did a reboot. Normally it takes a few seconds to reboot but it wasn't coming back up. Turns out things were fine, I just had to do a hard shutdown. Give it the ol' kick and the engine fires back up. After that, I wrapped up an animation and cleaned things up. I accidently deleted the base file I work off of, but so glad I setup shadow copies for the Artemis project.

Seeing as today is World BackUp Day, I wanted to share how important this has been. Especially for Artemis. I setup TrueNas for Artemis, with RAID Z2 which just means out of the 4 drives I have the Artemis project specifically on, I can afford to lose two of those drives before the ship has sunk. On top of that are daily backups to Backblaze and I setup another backup to an external drive at my sister's place. So, we gucci here.

Setting up shadow copy really saved my ass from having to rebuild my base. After realizing what I did, I checked previous versions and was able to copy over what I had previously deleted. Those get done every day, though after this update is out. I'm going to do an overhaul to my setup. Expand storage, create snapshots twice a day instead of once, etc.

Anywho, I wanted to mention this to help out any devs out here reading this. If not done so already, I highly recommend. Tons of YouTube videos out there to guide you setting one up from old parts. More vids covering installing and configuring the OS.

Remember: Always backup the lewd.

Have a great week everyone and be safe.

Seven days...

- digi