Re: Linux Repository backup on WIN server

[Jim Hyslop]

Vijay Mishra wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I was just wondering is there any need of special precautions/steps for
> taking the Linux repository backup on win 2000 server.
>
> I have CVS running on WhiteBox Linux machine.
>
> Any suggestion/comments will be very helpful.

Just make sure that your backup process does not perform any line-ending 
translations - RCS files (and therefore CVS files) are defined to always 
use only LF (ASCII 0x0A) as the line terminator. Other than that, I 
can't see any problems with that combination of environments.

--
Jim