Re: [ILUG] Backing up to disk

From: kevin lyda (kevin+dated+1032358237.95ed72 at domain ie.suberic.net)
Date: Fri 13 Sep 2002 - 15:10:43 IST


On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:49:13PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> The above sounds good to me - what am I missing ? Is there any software
> around to help automate this ?

that sounds fine really. but you could use cvs as an alternative.
it would be silly, but it's an option.

rsync to a cvs tree on the archive (excluding cvs dirs/files).
some script to add new files to cvs.
cvs ci.
cvs tag for that day.
and then whatever cvs command you need to issue to delete old versions
    of the files.

a webcvs interface could be used to restore.

downside - you have to store two copies of the data. the working tree
and the actual repository.

kevin

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