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
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