Re: documentation on cvsup for backing up cvs repositories

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Hi Ankush,

ankush grover <address@hidden> writes:

>  I am using cvs on FC3. I want to configure cvsup for backing up cvs
> repositories across the network.

That seems reasonable.

> Any how to or documentation for configuring such setup will be very help.

The primary reference material for for CVSup is the home page:

    http://www.cvsup.org

and the Frequently Asked Questions page:

    http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html

This handbook is also good:

    http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html

The www.onlamp.com folks also have some good information:

    http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/08/16/Big_Scary_Daemons.html

However, in general, you want to follow these basic steps:

1) Get and install CVSup (both the client and the server). You may
   either do this from source by getting a modula3 compiler and building
   it and then building the CVSupd sources or by installing pre-built
   binaries:

   a) URLs for the sources are:
      
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/ezm3/ezm3-1.1-src.tar.bz2
      
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/ezm3/ezm3-1.1-src.tar.bz2.asc
      
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/ezm3/ezm3-1.2-LINUXLIBC6-boot.tar.bz2
      
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/ezm3/ezm3-1.2-LINUXLIBC6-boot.tar.bz2.asc
      
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/sources/cvsup-snap-16.1h.tar.gz
      
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/sources/cvsup-snap-16.1h.tar.gz.asc

    b) The URLs for the FC3 RPMs for cvsup are:
       ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/3/i386/cvsup-16.1-6.h.i386.rpm
       ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/3/SRPMS/cvsup-16.1-6.h.src.rpm

    For myself, I prefer to have the sources to build everything in case
    some problem develops that I need to fix or if I need to port to a
    new platform for which I do not have the pre-built runtime. Your
    mileage may vary.

2) Getting the CVSupd server running on your cvs repository machine for
   the repositor(y/ies) you desire to mirror.

3) Get the CVSup client running on your backup cvs repository machine.

4) Get a schedule of running the CVSup and when it has finished doing
   your backup.

This document:

    http://motoyuki.bsdclub.org/BSD/cvsup.html

should help you in setting up your CVSup mirror.

        Good luck,
        -- Mark
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