[PLUG] Rsync Backup Solution over SSH

[Ian Burrell]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:29:30PM -0700, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> 
> Of course that's the way it works, but in this case the repository was 
> ~500M and was being grabbed from Ireland (IIRC).  It took many hours and 
> they didn't want to do that very often.
> 

If the problem is the time it takes to transfer the initial checkout
for a big repository, one common solution is to create snapshots of a
checked out working directory and distribute those.  The snapshots can
be distributed as tar archives or with rsync.  To setup a working
directory, a developer copies the snapshot, changes the CVS/Root files
to put in their login, and does an update to get any recent changes.

 - Ian

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