Re: Repository access woes

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:21:41AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> %% Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> gh> Please avoid sweeping generalizations like that one; a great deal
> gh> of large-scale use of CVS does not involve NFS in any way.
>
> You're right: "any" was far too strong; I apologize. However, I'm
> familiar with a lot of larger companies and as a rule they are moving
> away from local disk and towards NAS-style solutions. The latter is
> much simpler to back up, generally more reliable, and less expensive.
> It's not that unusual for companies to require that all critical data
> live on NAS.

Could you get away with simply hot-backup.py-ing the repository onto
NAS? I'm sure it would be possible to argue that the live BDB repository
itself is transient, and that the dump is the actual critical data;
after all, you might not be able to back up a running database without
shutting it down anyway, so this would actually be easier from the point
of view of the company's IT infrastructure.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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