Re: CVS backup server

[Derek Robert Price]

Find the "cvslock" program on the web and lock your repository for 
reading before you do the rsync.

Derek

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Anders Truelsen wrote:

> Hi Daniel 
>
> Set up the backup with the same allowroots and all.
> You can use Rsync to keep the backup in sync with the master at
> appropriate time intervals.
>
> When the master fails all you've got to do is to let the backup assume
> the identity of the master and you're rolling again.
>
> Regards,
> anders
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Curry [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 20. august 2002 02:04
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: CVS backup server
>
> I need to make a second machine a backup server for our primary CVS
> system.  Does anyone know of a HOW-TO for this?  I am a Windows system
> admin doing the 'sink or swim' thing with Linux and Solaris.  Our
> existing CVS service is on a Solaris machine, the backup CVS sever will
> be a RedHat 7.3 system.  Does anyone know of any conflicts I might
> experience while trying to implement this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel Curry
> IT Manager
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