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Re: backing up of cvs repositories
From: |
Mark D. Baushke |
Subject: |
Re: backing up of cvs repositories |
Date: |
Sun, 14 May 2006 00:53:40 -0700 |
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ankush grover <address@hidden> writes:
> I have configured CVS on fc3 and now I am trying
> to learn how to backup the cvs repositories.
> There are about 9 repositories on my linux
> server and I want to backup all the repositories
> to one of the directory on the server itself.
>
> I read this url and want to know how to backup
> my repositories.
> http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.21/cvs_2.html#SEC24
>
> Developers in my company don't work after 11:00
> PM as they prefer to come on weekends to finish
> their pending work rather than spending whole
> night completing their work.
>
> I can schedule the backup of the repositories
> through rsync at 4:00 AM everyday I hope at this
> time nobody will be accessing the cvs. Now how
> should I backup means should I create lock files
> or should i stop cvs server and then take the
> backup.
You could just do a normal rsync and exclude ,.*,
files as well as the various CVS lock files
themselves. Doing it multiple times until there
are no new files updated would probably work fine.
> Which is the best way to backup the repositories ?
CVSup the repositories to someplace where you just
do normal backups of the files.
> Developers are using pserver as authentication
> method as my server is very restricted for ssh
> access.
http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/3/SRPMS/cvsup-16.1-6.h.src.rpm
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/3/i386/cvsup-16.1-6.h.i386.rpm
In my opinion, using :ext: over SSH as the
transport is better than using :pserver:.
-- Mark
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