Glenn Linderman wrote: > On approximately 6/3/2006 3:22 AM, came the following characters from > the keyboard of Robert May: >> Glenn Linderman wrote: >>> On approximately 5/17/2006 1:10 PM, came the following characters from >>> the keyboard of Robert May: >>>> Glenn Linderman wrote: >>>>> ... but what about backups? I'd be happy to backup Win32::GUI's CVS >>>>> if there is a Windows rsync that I can use to do it... unless you >>>>> have already set up something. >>>> I already investigated, and found cwRsync >>>> http://www.itefix.no/cwrsync/ >>> Do you have a command line that does the job that you could share as a >>> starting point for creating my own command line? >> I just followed the instructions at: >> https://sourceforge.net/docs/E04/en/#rsync >> >> which led me to having the following .bat file (adjust paths as >> necessary; last line may wrap - it's supposed to be one line only): >> >> @echo off >> rem backup the perl-win32-gui sourceforge CVS repository >> rem into the current directory >> C:\PROGRA~1\cwRsync\bin\rsync -av >> rsync://perl-win32-gui.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/perl-win32-gui/* . >> >> Thanks, >> Rob. > > OK, that was relatively simple. I modified the script a bit so I'll > keep one backup per day-of-the-week so the script chooses the directory > for the day of the week, and then does your command. So I'll always > have 7 copies, generally from the last 7 days, and, no doubt, often > redundant when not much is happening. But only when I'm not on > vacation, so there will be some sporadic behaviour then, when some of my > backups could be older... it is part of my bootup-first-time-each-day > script.
If it's helpful, I have a linux server running 24/7 at my house, so I can automate a daily backup and keep them as far back as it suits you guys (as I'm not in any danger [yet] of filling the 800GBs of disk space on it). ;) I'll set that up Monday at first opportunity. Darrik Mazey
