On 8/2/07, Harald Geyer <Harald.Geyer at gmx.at> wrote:
> > Feel free to back up other stuff (CVS comes to mind especially).
>
> I don't know how this could be done. I keep all messages from the
> commits ML (and from the bugs ML too) - theoretically it would be
> possible to restore CVS from that, but it sure would be a bit of
> a challenge. If anybody knows a way to get a tarball or something,
> I would be interested to hear about it...
Oh -- SourceForge allows use of rsync to make a CVS backup.
Here is SF's blurb about that. http://sourceforge.net/docs/E04#rsync
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Rsync access to the developer CVS content is provided, allowing
projects and other users direct access to the raw CVS repository data,
much like the deprecated nightly tarball service. The use of rsync
means that there will no longer be a delay between what is in the
repository and the data that a user can download for backups or major
code refactoring. Rsync can be used to copy an entire project's
repository (replace PROJECTNAME with the project UNIX name):
$ rsync -av rsync://PROJECTNAME.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/PROJECTNAME/* .
Note that you cannot rsync the entire cvsroot rsync module for
performance reasons.
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Let me know if you need help.
best
Robert