Re: Rebuilding server

[Donald Sharp]

1)  Lock the repository down.
2)  Back the repository up( your tar example is one method )
3)  rebuild server
4)  unbackup the repository in the apropriate place
5)  Unlock the repository.

donald
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 06:40:53PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> 
>     I'm looking at a server (machine) rebuild.  How can I preserve my
> CVS tree(s)?  I don't know if it's as simple as tarring up my entire
> /CVS directory, then untarring it when I'm done
> (formatting/reinstalling/blah/blah), or what else is involved.  I must
> maintain all of the version histories on everything, branches and all.
> I know I can't just checkout everything, then re-import after the
> rebuild because that'll skew the file versioning.  So, what's the proper
> way of doing this?
> 
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