Re: replicating the server

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Sandhya <address@hidden> writes:

> We have a scenario where in developers from both US as well as the
> offshore development need to sync to the same repository. For faster
> access we are planning to have two servers replicated. Is there any
> idea how to achieve this with CVS. Is it just O/S copy or is there any
> way to get this done in CVS.

To create a cvs repository as a remote mirror, you will probably want to
use either 

    http://www.cvsup.org/
or
    http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

to transfer the files. You will still need to have write operations go
back to the primary server if you want them generally shared, but using
the CVS_LOCAL_BRANCH_NUM environment variable in conjunction with CVSup
would allow you to maintain a local branch remotely if that were useful.

If you use the latest cvs-1.12.10 sources, you may also specify triggers
on the primary server for all possible write operations to the repository
so that you could initiate a transfer of a commit to the primary to all
of your secondaries immediately.

With cvs-1.12.10 (or higher), there is also the ability to specify a
PrimaryServer in the CVSROOT/config file which would allow you to run
the remote mirror as a secondary for read operations as well as have all
:ext: connections be forwarded or redirected to the PrimaryServer.

        -- Mark
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