Ned Ludd wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 19:44 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Monday 26 March 2007, bret curtis wrote:
Only wimps use tape backup: *real **men* just upload their important
stuff on *ftp*, and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- LT :1996
Mike,
We can't do a full raw mirror. There are restricted things in CVS. A
raw copy of the anonymous cvs is about as close as we could do to this.
I personally see little to no benefit in the additional overhead in
doing that. But if you can make a case to say robbat2 and pylon for why
this would be useful to our community then I'm sure we could open up a
rsync of the raw anoncvs mirror.
Aside from username and passwords, is Gentoo not so transparent that we
can't do a master dump of our collective work and allow it to be
mirrored in some fashion by people willing to do so?
Perhaps an official Gentoo project snapshot isn't such bad idea, chalk
full of data integrity checks that people can download, digest, dissect
if they really want to.
Mirror/snapshot/dump and letting others mirror it is ultimately the best
intellectual property insurance when the primary objective is redundancy
and speed of recovery. Rebuilding infrastructure is the hard part, I'm
still waiting to see who ultimately has control of the gentoo.org domain. :P
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