it sounds to me like your repos are backed up well as long as they are all completely sync’d with each other on a regular basis and so long as they are located on different HDD volumes and at least one copy offsite from one of the other copies. Your versioning history is very well backed up for sure due to the distribution.
However Its not clear from your description whether the workspaces of your devs are backed up. Also your backup may or may not cover certain odd cases. For example, what if some piece of data inside the Sqlite db file is changed, something that is not under version control per say, its just some SQL data being used..config data or whatever… And then 3 days later you realize someone changed that data… if that data was sync’d between all repos during those 3 days, then the original is gone now, no way to get it back unless you have an actual backup of your DB file that was done totally outside of Fossil’s internal versioning and syncing capabilities. In practical terms, you’re covered very well I’d say. On Apr 23, 2016, at 12:15 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > On 4/23/16, Steve Schow <st...@bstage.com> wrote: >> >> version control is definitely not a backup ... >> > > Why not? What am I missing? > > For Fossil and for SQLite, our "backup" is 3 copies of the > repositories for each project, running in three different datacenters, > using two separate providers, plus all the local copies we have of > each repo. The main repositories stay synced with each other > automatically (using cron jobs on the servers). On my (numerous) > development machines, I frequently do "fossil all sync" which > synchronizes all my private copies of the various repos as well. > > So there are many copies of each project, each copy including all > history going back many years, stored at multiple sites around the > world, and constantly updated. > > How can a backup strategy improve on that? > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
