On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Mat Booth <mat.bo...@wandisco.com> wrote:
>
>> Matt, it looks like he wants to back up working copies, not
>> repositories.
>
> Exactly, but as I've said Subversion itself isn't a backup system and
> shouldn't really be used as such.
OK, but what if he had said he wanted to automate revision control of
a large set of files? Is subversion suitable for that?
For straight backups, I like backuppc which will efficiently compress
and pool all unchanged files of the same content (even when found in
different locations), has a nice web interface for browsing and
restores, and can use rsync for efficient transfers of changes. And
people have wrapped in volume snapshots in its pre/post backup
routines even though it is not included in the base system. However,
it is not efficient at storing large files with small changes and does
not provide an interface for viewing differences or change history.
I'd like to find something that has that latter functionality but can
be automated to handle things like system config files with a set of
machines treated as branches. Has anyone done this with subversion
or is there a better approach?
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
