Rahul R. Parkhi Member Technical Staff Networking & Internet Software Group Centre For Develpoment Of Advanced Computing Pune University Campus,Ganeshkhind,Pune 411007 India. Tel.(020)5694000/1/2/3 Ext. 484 mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 12:12:19 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Parkhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem in recovery from the CD backup of CVS Repository Hi, Very recently, I have taken a CD backup of a CVS repository. but facing a difficulty in recovery from the backup..Can anyone tell me about how to take a CD backup of a repository and recover from the backup in case of any failure in the CVS server machine ..Any document which says about this ? I refered cederqvist's cvs manual but it says that a backup can be taken like any other simple backup of a file..but it doesn't say much about how to recover from the backup.. Just to simulate the recovery from the backup taken, I created the new repository on some other machine.but i am unable to recover..I guess this is because of CVSROOT administrative dir..So I have tried following two things: 1. I overwrote the CVSROOT directory of the newly created repository by the CVSROOT directory of the original repository whose backup was taken in order to keep all the history of the project intact. But here, error is coming which says pserver error..missing = in CVSROOT or something..I guess this error is because of CVSROOT dir. of new repository being overwritten by the old CVSROOT..but if i don't do it, how should i put the whole history of the project (rcsinfo, committinfo, history file,loginfo) in place ? 2. Here i have done exactly reverse...Overwrote the old CVSRROT dir. taken from the backup by the newly generated CVSRROT dir while creating the new repository on other machine..In this case, the repository can be accessed without any problem..but i can checkout only the latest revision of any file or dir. in the project..If i try to recover any old revision of the file, it gives error that "cvs does not know about this revision of the file"..It looks logical as the entire history of the project maintained in the various files from CVSROOT dir is overwritten by the new fresh CVSRROT dir. Please suggest a solution.. regards, Rahul R. Parkhi Member Technical Staff Networking & Internet Software Group Centre For Develpoment Of Advanced Computing Pune University Campus,Ganeshkhind,Pune 411007 India. Tel.(020)5694000/1/2/3 Ext. 484 mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
