Re: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread David Gagnon
Hello, If I need to automate the backup (during the night for example), what I need to do? Can I use AppleScript? Do I need to use unix batch file? What is the best way to do that? ___ David Gagnon Dynagram Software www.dynagram.com Pat Young wrote: When I backup

RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Tom Copeland
06, 2003 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jean-François Paré Subject: Re: Backing Up CVS Hello, If I need to automate the backup (during the night for example), what I need to do? Can I use AppleScript? Do I need to use unix batch file? What is the best way to do

Re: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Gianni Mariani
David Gagnon wrote: Hello, If I need to automate the backup (during the night for example), what I need to do? Can I use AppleScript? Do I need to use unix batch file? What is the best way to do that? Here us my backup script crontab entry # 30 5* * * /root/cvsbackup_1perday

Re: RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread douggorley
Server Hacks (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/chapter/ch03.pdf), and also check out a nifty tool called rdiff-backup. Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Tom Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, February 6, 2003 8:38 am Subject: RE: Backing Up CVS

RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Zieg, Mark
David Gagnon wrote: Hello, If I need to automate the backup (during the night for example), what I need to do? Can I use AppleScript? Do I need to use unix batch file? What is the best way to do that? Here's mine. My whole repository bzip2's down to about 5MB, so I just email it to

RE: RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Zieg, Mark
: Backing Up CVS If you want to do incremental backups on a large repository, there's other options as well. Check out the sample chapter from the new O'Reilly book, Linux Server Hacks (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/chapter/ch03.pdf), and also check out a nifty tool called rdiff-backup

Re: RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Steinberg
Subject: RE: RE: Backing Up CVS And rsync (which can ride over ssh)... http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:51 AM To: Tom Copeland Cc: 'Jean-Francois Pare'; 'David Gagnon'; [EMAIL

Re: RE: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Vijay Kumar
Hi, Don't we have to stop the cvs server to take the backup ? Please correct me if I am wrong. Warm Regards, Vijay Kumar - Original Message - From: Dave Steinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 4:17 AM Subject: Re: RE: Backing Up CVS

Re: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-06 Thread Mahantesh M Vantmuri
Vijay Kumar wrote: Don't we have to stop the cvs server to take the backup ? Please correct me if I am wrong. tar is the best way to take cvs backup as few others mentioned earlier. You need not stop cvs while taking backup. Cheers. Mahantesh.

Backing Up CVS

2003-02-05 Thread Pat Young
When I backup my CVS respository using FTP, should I FTP everything as text files? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Pat Young __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

Re: Backing Up CVS

2003-02-05 Thread Riechers, Matthew W
Pat Young wrote: When I backup my CVS respository using FTP, should I FTP everything as text files? The safe answer is no. Depending on your setup, a better approach might be to archive the repository and then transfer the archive as one file (in binary mode), to help preserve permissions and