[Gllug] OT: Source control - backup

[Kristian Davies]

Martin Brooks...
>>User's home directorys were backed up once per day, as was the CVS tree
>>- this worked quite well.

Unfortunately, that's kind of what we do at the moment, but... when a file
is checked out it goes to a directory locally, with a million other files
and so the file-pattern-matching for backup is huge and unwieldy, and still
gets far too much data.

We have 30 programmers and the dev dirs are 15Gb and all I want is maybe 4Mb
of data :-)  I was wondering whether the source control software itself had
a feature for this problem.  I find it totally bizarre that you have to
backup the workstation\local dev directory, as a solution.

Is this a common problem with all source control software...?


-Kristian



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