Beman Dawes wrote: > > ... various backup suggestions > > SourceForge already makes the entire Boost CVS tarball available every > night, and several Boosters download it daily.
Oh, good. There is no such thing as too much backup. > (At least I hope they do - I have no way of telling if they are still > running their cron jobs.) > > That is supposed to protect us from total failure, such as > SourceForge going bankrupt and shutting down unexpectedly. > > But it isn't clear what the best procedure is to protect against > partial failure - it seemed easier just to restore file-by-file in > this particular case. Sure, if the files content indeed makes sense. I would characterize our case as malfunctioning with the possible result of the bogus content; in this situation, plain content backup, whether it's intentional or accidental, tarball or separate files, is not a reliable source to restore from. We just happened to be lucky this time (if John will be able to restore his branch). I think Vladimir's suggestion makes sense and is worth doing. It covers what plain backups cannot, and costs nothing in terms of maintenance. Aleksey _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
