On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:36:49 -0500 Predrag Punosevac <punoseva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All, > > I am seeking advice about the backup strategies and possible use > of CVS to accomplish this task. > Just a suggestion but, given that 1. you want the latest revs available to use on any of several machines, 2. these machines run a variety of OS 3. you want fully restorable data you might consider having two layers of backup, such that a. you have a full raid 1 (mirror) array with 3 identical disks, one of which you swap out periodically with associated restoration of the latest image to the swapped in disk, b. you share the same area of this server using NFS and SMB, with similar permissions, c. consider using git, and move the .git subdirs into symlinks with the origins on your raid. This is not something I've implemented in completeness but have been considering by parts as a kind of generalized solution to SMB requirements. On the other hand I keep hearing that these requirements will be elevated to the clouds regardless of the lack of visibility ;-) Dhu
