Robin, Have you thought about using git instead of svn? It's a bit cleaner does a better job merging file IMO and stores everything as files instead of in db2 or fsf storage formats..
-mmiller On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Robin Wood<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > I'm looking at different back up solutions for my server and was > thinking about using subversion. I'd add /etc to a repository and have > it automatically checked in every night. I'd have the repo to be on a > different server and to have the svn traffic tunnel over ssh. > > As some files in /etc are only readable by root, the svn check in must > be done by root. As allowing remote ssh access to root is a bad idea > so the repo must be owned by a non-root user on the other box. Seeing > as I'll have to trust something somewhere I'll assume that I trust the > non-root user on the other box. > > Before the check in all new files must be added to the repo as well. > > Does anyone else have this kind of setup and if so, does it work or > can you point out any alternatives or better ways to do things? > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
