On 4/5/06, Attila Horvath <mutsuura@mutsuura.com> wrote:
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> All
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> Has anyone used SVN as a drive backup utility? ~say in place of a standard
> backup tool like NERO and the like?
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> From your perspective, any pro's con's for using it in this manner or for
> that purpose?
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> Thx
> Attila
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I have a spare server as a subversion repository server which in a way also
acts as backup because I have all of my personal documents
and projects in svn. Music, i.e., mp3 and wma and videos files are not in
subversion because of the way working copies are handled, too much space is
wasted.
I'ts nice to be able to have a history of changes that you've made and be
able access and update your personal files, basically
from anywhere in the world. So I highly recommend storing your "home"
directory/personal files in svn. It's the best thing since sliced bread.
There are better tools for backing up whole drives, e.g., backuppc, rsync,
rdiff-backup etc. Using svn for that is rather useless IMO as it
keeps extra copies in you work space. You'll waste a lot of disk space that
could be used for other things.
Received on Wed Apr 5 19:45:31 2006