Inventory Volatility

I'm working on a very large build and want to take measures to protect against it being lost and/or corrupted. Right now, the build is housed within a Rez-Faux and I also keep a second copy as a Coalesced object.

I know first hand keeping everything in a single prim is dangerous, but are there any tips for improving its stability? Would regularly replacing the whole Rez-Faux with a copy that managed to rez everything successfully in-world be a way to keep the associated contents fresh and out of reach from the garbage collector?

What about my current backup? Do coalesced objects have an elevated potential to lose/corrupt some of the link-set grouped within it? Or would the safest choice simply mean having a folder that contains every object in the build as an individual inventory item?

/me simply wishes you the very best of luck ...

Personally I have had more success keeping inventory in the contents of rezzed prims than in my own inventory folder. I've got stuff that I put in a storage prim back in March that is still there and rezzes fine when I take it out, compared with stuff in my own inventory folder that becomes 'not found in asset server' or whatever the error is, if I haven't rezzed it in a couple months. (note, I don't take my storage prims into my inventory, they stay rezzed inworld in a 'closet'. of course, as usual, your mileage may vary.)

My suggestion would be simply, keep lots of copies, in different places. In your inventory, rezzed in world if possible, or in a storage prim that is rezzed in world, wherever. The more backups you have, the more likely that if anything goes wrong, you'll have something to fall back on.

-Atashi

from my experience I've heard more complaints about coalesed objects getting borked than box solutions like rez-foo/rez-faux/jack-in-the-box/builders buddy....

I wouldn't suggest replacing them either, just keeping 2 copies you know work(or even one that is rezzed, and one that isn't), and maybe another given to a different avatar to hold.

single item borks happen, and can ruin your day, but if you have something rezzed, AND in your inventory, AND on another av, that's a lot of protection.... because it's stored on the sim it's rezzed on, in your inventory, and another av's inventory.

also good is to avoid the temptation to take out the second copy if the first one borks, instead check around and see if others are having the same problem, because you could potentially break the second copy if something funky is going on inworld..

that said I'll ammend my advice. 1 copy rezzed, two in inventory, and another in a different av's inventory... and make sure they all have maximum permissions possible (nothing worse than passing of an item for someone to hold and getting it back only to realize you haven't got full permissions anymore)

Thanks for the input!

The Empty One pretty much summed it up. That's the belt-and-suspenders approach.

The most important thing, IMO, is to keep a full perm copy with an alt. Even if, for some reason, your main avatar becomes inoperable, you still have a working copy of the build.