From: Duncan Patton a Campbell (campbellneotext.ca)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2009 - 15:04:18 CST

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On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:36:49 -0500
Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am seeking advice about the backup strategies and possible use
> of CVS to accomplish this task.
>

Just a suggestion but, given that

1. you want the latest revs available to use on any of several machines,
2. these machines run a variety of OS
3. you want fully restorable data

you might consider having two layers of backup, such that

a. you have a full raid 1 (mirror) array with 3 identical disks,
   one of which you swap out periodically with associated restoration
   of the latest image to the swapped in disk,
b. you share the same area of this server using NFS and SMB, with
   similar permissions,
c. consider using git, and move the .git subdirs into symlinks
   with the origins on your raid.

This is not something I've implemented in completeness but have
been considering by parts as a kind of generalized solution to SMB
requirements. On the other hand I keep hearing that these requirements
will be elevated to the clouds regardless of the lack of visibility ;-)

Dhu

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