[Discuss] Possible backup scenarios for a 500GB drive

[John Blomfield]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2007-10-27 17:46-0700 chris wakefield wrote:
>
>> OnOctober 26, 2007 01:00:43 pm Daniel M German wrote:
>>> Have you thought of using subversion as a home-directory-backup
>>> mechanism? I use it like that and to synchronize across
>>> computers. Works great.
>>>
>>> Of course the best/simplest/easiest backup system is being released
>>> today, but it costs money and runs on a very small subset of
>>> computers. It will change the way _some_ people do their personal
>>> backups, I am sure.
>>>
>>> I used to use backupPC. Works great, incremental backups, it waits
>>> until the computer connects to the network to backup. But it is a pain
>>> to administer. I stop using it since I upgraded my linux box.
>>>
>>> --dmg
>> Daniel, what is subversion like to set up? ..... too easy, easy, OK 
>> or unix
>> man page hard?
>
> I am sure Daniel will want to answer this question, but I would like to
> answer as well because I have had a lot of really good recent experience
> with subversion as a result of converting 6 different SourceForge 
> projects
> from CVS to subversion, and then just using subversion from then on 
> for each
> of the projects.
>
> Setting up a local subversion repository and learning how to use a
> subversion client is easy if you have had prior experience with CVS or 
> some
> other version control system, and you are comfortable with the command 
> line.
> If you have never ever used a version control system getting started with
> subversion will be harder. However, if you plan to work with computers at
> all, then I believe version control system skills are worth 
> developing, and
> subversion is an excellent starting system to help you do that because 
> it is
> so well documented in the downloadable book at 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/.
> Also, don't be intimidated by the size of the book.  The quick-start 
> part of
> the book at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.html#svn.intro 
> does
> exactly what its title says.
>
> Alan
Why did you convert projects from CVS to subversion?  In what way is 
subversion superior? Is there a GUI like cervisia?

John Blomfield


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