Re: [Ilugc] (ab)using SVN/mercurial/other for general file backup

2009-04-03 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 03 Apr 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: > I've been planning on setting up a central SVN repository off-site so that > my users can commit their changes daily, and thus do their own backups. > And something like TortiseSVN should ease the end user experience. As long as your users are

Re: [Ilugc] (ab)using SVN/mercurial/other for general file backup

2009-04-03 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > I would say rsync is a far better tool for this rsync is good only for mirroring. It offers no revision control. If someone corrupts local data, the remote side also gets corrupted. For those worried about the security of your data whe

Re: [Ilugc] (ab)using SVN/mercurial/other for general file backup

2009-04-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 03 April 2009 15:25:50 Raja Subramanian wrote: > I see lots of benefits in using SVN -- multiple file revisions, off-site > backup, reduced bandwidth usage, etc.  But I've never tried svn for large > repos holding binary files. I would say rsync is a far better tool for this -- regards

Re: [Ilugc] (ab)using SVN/mercurial/other for general file backup

2009-04-03 Thread Bhuvaneswaran A
> > Has anyone (ab)used their SVN repositories like this and offer any > insights? We have customers who use SVN to store iso images. We also have customers with WC size >40GB, excluding the size of .svn directory. I think, using earlier Apache releases (>2.2), we can not upload files > 2GB, as p

[Ilugc] (ab)using SVN/mercurial/other for general file backup

2009-04-03 Thread Raja Subramanian
Hi, I'm looking for a system to backup my office data -- binary files (mostly MS Office documents, pdf, etc) spread over a dozen or so Windows desktops. I have ~5GB of data in total. Unlike source code, my users rarely modify existing files in my dataset, and it grows whenever new files are added