Re: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Mahantesh M Vantmuri
Vijay Kumar wrote: Don't we have to stop the cvs server to take the backup ? Please correct me if I am wrong. tar is the best way to take cvs backup as few others mentioned earlier. You need not stop cvs while taking backup. Cheers. Mahantesh. __

Re: RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Vijay Kumar
Hi, Don't we have to stop the cvs server to take the backup ? Please correct me if I am wrong. Warm Regards, Vijay Kumar - Original Message - From: "Dave Steinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 4:17 AM Subj

Re: RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Steinberg
February 06, 2003 1:30 PM Subject: RE: RE: Backing Up CVS > And rsync (which can ride over ssh)... > http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:51 AM > To: T

RE: RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Zieg, Mark
TED] Subject: Re: RE: Backing Up CVS If you want to do incremental backups on a large repository, there's other options as well. Check out the sample chapter from the new O'Reilly book, "Linux Server Hacks" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/chapter/ch03.pdf), and also ch

RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Zieg, Mark
David Gagnon wrote: > Hello, > > If I need to automate the backup (during the night for example), what > I need to do? Can I use AppleScript? Do I need to use unix batch file? > What is the best way to do that? Here's mine. My whole repository bzip2's down to about 5MB, so I just email it to m

Re: RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread douggorley
> Tom > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > > Of David Gagnon > > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:20 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: Jean-François Paré > > Subject:

Re: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Gianni Mariani
David Gagnon wrote: Hello, If I need to automate the backup (during the night for example), what I need to do? Can I use AppleScript? Do I need to use unix batch file? What is the best way to do that? Here us my backup script crontab entry # 30 5* * * /root/cvsbackup_1perday -

RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Tom Copeland
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Jean-François Paré > Subject: Re: Backing Up CVS > > > Hello, > > If I need to automate the backup (during the night for > example), what I > need to do? Can I use AppleScript? Do I need to

Re: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread David Gagnon
Hello, If I need to automate the backup (during the night for example), what I need to do? Can I use AppleScript? Do I need to use unix batch file? What is the best way to do that? ___ David Gagnon Dynagram Software www.dynagram.com Pat Young wrote: When I backup

Re: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-05 Thread Riechers, Matthew W
Pat Young wrote: > > When I backup my CVS respository using FTP, should I > FTP everything as "text" files? The safe answer is "no". Depending on your setup, a better approach might be to archive the repository and then transfer the archive as one file (in binary mode), to help preserve permissio