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Re: Repository recovery and archiving


From: Eric Siegerman
Subject: Re: Repository recovery and archiving
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:08:36 -0500
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:05:43AM +0000, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote:
> Rob Helmer wrote:
> > Doing incremental backups with Amanda, dump, by scripting tar
> > or any other backup system is probably the way to go.
>
> In short, I need the transaction capabilities of a database ( going back
> to "cvs tag" needing to be "all" or "none," not "some" in the event of
> failure during the operation of "cvs tag" ... since tagging multiple
> files are not atomic ) in a source control.

Then lock the repository while you take the incremental backup.
See the "Locks" page in the manual.

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