> > If you lose a parent revision *in general*, the workspace is no longer > > the same workspace you backed up into. If your local *clone* actually > > is a clone, its revisions match those of the gate, and your backup > > will restore into any other clone of that gate. > > > > If your local clone is another workspace, yes, you need to restore > > into a clone *of that workspace*. > > Let's say everything gets destroyed except ~/cdm.backup. My > workspace, and the project gate from which I pulled it, both > gone. Further, let's say the project gate was different from the > "official" clone. Is there no way to retrieve the contents of > this directory and just get my files back?
CDM backups every changeset which is not found in parent gate (+
uncommitted changes). If the parent gate itself contains changes with
respect to official gate, and you loose this parent, you can't bring the
files back unless they have not been committed.
I already saw one such failure, where we were not able to get anything
out of the bundle. Since then I am recommending people to do backups on
their own, just to be safe.
> If that can't be done, how is this backup method superior to a
> more traditional archive like tar or cpio?
I think that it would be good to include also plain full files in the
backup, as wx used to do. Space is cheap, loosing changes bad.
Would it be hard to add such thing ?
Thank you
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Vlad
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