Re: how to "lock" repository during backup

[John]

I am guessing, but can't you just kill the pserver process, backup, then 
restart?

John


On 23 Apr 2002 11:38:01 -0700, address@hidden (Ben Chang) wrote:

>I wrote a ksh script to back up (tar then gzip) the repository. Does
>anybody know how I can safely "lock" the entire repository for the
>duration of my backup? Most of the CVS users are on NT and are using
>:pserver to connect to a Solaris CVS server box. Below is some info
>about my setup.
>
>OS: SunOS 5.7
>CVS: 1.11.1p1 (client/server)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>Ben