[kepler-dev] Re: backup of repositories

[Bertram Ludaescher]

SPA folks, fyi: I had asked Matt about backup of the ecoinformatics
web site, specifically Kepler CVS repository.

Below is his reply

Bertram

>>>>> "MJ" == Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> writes:
MJ> 
MJ> RAID's do fail.  So does every hard drive, eventually.  We have a 
MJ> commitment to keeping the cvs on good hardware.  We have a new disk on 
MJ> ecoinfo as we speak to address some space concerns, and cvs will be 
MJ> moving to that disk soon.  We have *many* projects running under our 
MJ> cvs, and so we take backup very seriously. We have a dedicated tape 
MJ> backup on ecoinfo.  It is backed up nightly with an conservative scheme 
MJ> of incrementals and level 0's.  The level 0's are periodically taken off 
MJ> site.  In addition, each developer that has a copy of the repository has 
MJ> a copy of the most recent code (although not the whole history), so 
MJ> there is a decent copy of the most recent stuff at UCSB/UCSD/Alaska/etc. 
MJ>   I would be completely willing to mirror to sourceforge for safety's 
MJ> sake if anyone so desires -- it'll just take a little time to figure out 
MJ> how to do the mirroring now that sourcefourge doesn't allow cvsup 
MJ> access.  But I'm sure there's a way to do it.
MJ> 
MJ> Matt