[Gllug] OT: Source control - backup

[Peter Childs]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Kristian Davies wrote:

> 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
> 
	I surpose you could ask the tool for a diff between the current 
directory and your current file(s). hmmm in CVS that would be....

cvs diff

how you use the diff I'm not sure but with the right flags you should be 
able to patch it with the source control software backup...

Peter Childs


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