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Re: How To Backup All of CVS?
From: |
Matt Riechers |
Subject: |
Re: How To Backup All of CVS? |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:19:14 -0400 |
address@hidden wrote:
>
> How do I grab $CVSROOT? Are there CVS commands that allow you to do this?
> Or, do you need to grab everything through FTP? I haven't been able to
> find any type of CVS command that would allow me to grab it.
You can't backup a repository through cvs commands. The repository is just
another directory on the system. Back it up like you would any other directory.
> By the way, are there searchable CVS archives anywhere?
Check this email's headers for the main archive. You could also check
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/
> Just make a tarball of all the $CVSROOT, and you should be reasonably safe.
> Make a script to check for lock-files, and you should be even more safe
> (should be a pretty easy thing to do ... PS: I'm unemployed ;-)
>
> Before overwriting or deleting older backups, you should check that the
> repository is not corrupted. There does exist some script for this, though
> I don't have any references.
>
> I also just hacked together a small and simple script that logs the md5sum
> of all files in the repository, and then checks that the older versions of
> the files are unmuted - though it does not yet check branches nor metadata.
> I might mail it to you if you're interessted (or anyone else that might be
> interested - I find it inappropriate to post a complete script to the
> mailing list, and I don't have IP access to publish it at the web
> somewhere).
-Matt
- How To Backup All of CVS?, Rebecca . R . Hepper, 2001/09/26
- RE: How To Backup All of CVS?, Michael Thiele, 2001/09/26
- Re: How To Backup All of CVS?, Kaz Kylheku, 2001/09/26
- Re: How To Backup All of CVS?, Rebecca . R . Hepper, 2001/09/28
- Re: How To Backup All of CVS?,
Matt Riechers <=
- Re: How To Backup All of CVS?, Kaz Kylheku, 2001/09/28
- Re: How To Backup All of CVS?, Dennis Jones, 2001/09/29