-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ankush grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEZuIECg7APGsDnFERAusxAJ0TQCtQo42Ef9mgtdQjRvRvhAUnDwCfal7G 21Rz9x5LE3lsiMEOHhIA4Q4= =hUTi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
