Christopher Fuhrman wrote: > > "Todd Denniston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Christopher Fuhrman wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > At our university we'd like to integrate CVS with Eclipse for all of our > > > software engineering students (they would like it, too!). However, at > this > > > time, the file servers are all Novell. This seems to be pretty limiting > > > in terms of the technology, <SNIP> > I like your 60+GB idea (described below) because it's simple. However, the > issue at hand would then be backups. Our Novell servers are RAID-5 and > apparently backed up with some proprietary backup software. Finally, though, > it may be easier to fix the backup problem than to work Novell into a > Linux-based CVS system.
it could be something as simple as a (or set of) cron job that does: tar --bzip2 -cf /tmp/CVS_RepositoryBackup.tar.bz2 CVSROOT_LOCATION md5sum /tmp/CVS_RepositoryBackup.tar.bz2 > /tmp/CVS_RepositoryBackup.tar.bz2.md5 mount /mnt/novellserver/ mv /tmp/CVS_RepositoryBackup.tar.bz2* /mnt/novellserver/storebackupshere/ umount /mnt/novellserver/ #_MY_ experience is that if a network file system works at all it is #less likely to fail when a whole file is written at one #time than if the file is written in chunks. and let the novell servers tape backups be the long term archive of the backups. > > I'm guessing that some flavor of Linux makes ACL controls and quotas easy to > configure. Any favorite Linux for CVS servers in this regard? <SNIP> I really don't know of any flavor that makes doing ACLs any easier than any other flavor, but then I do all ACLs with the /etc/group file using vi OR xemacs. Of course I have a favorite distro, but no need to create a flame war here :) SUSE could be good, and they seem to be part of Novell now... -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
