[PLUG] Rsync Backup Solution over SSH

Kyle Accardi sandbox at pacifier.com
Tue Oct 21 16:21:02 UTC 2003


Ian Burrell wrote:
> 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.

We did that too.  I think the issue was that the remote users were basically 
forking the project and it included a large toolchain.  Think we ended up 
leaving them to their own devices instead of managing their source.

--
Kyle Accardi





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