[ale] CVS and mirroring/backup info sought

[dchambers at snapserver.com (Denny Chambers)]

You might want to look at something like rsync ( http://rsync.samba.org/
). There is a paper on getting to work under Window NT as well.This way
you could keep the CVS respository in synch with Windows NT directory
that does get backed up.

John Mills wrote:
> 
> ALErs -
> 
> I'm setting up a Linux-hosted CVS server in an environment where backups
> are done by MsWin hosts. I want to control access to the CVS repository
> and keep it in Linux disk space. It occurs to me that a daily mirroring
> into Samba-shared or MsWin disk space (before the backup cycle) would be a
> clean approach. Presumably this handles issues like access contention,
> history preservation, etc.
> 
> Could someone please point me at some docs on mirroring CVS archives?
> 
> TIA.
>  - John Mills
> 
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