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Using CVS as an enterprise backup facility
From: |
Merlin Beedell |
Subject: |
Using CVS as an enterprise backup facility |
Date: |
Thu, 12 May 2005 10:07:32 +0100 |
CVS sounds like a possible solution to the following scenario:
We are currently looking at backing up our main [file] servers to a remote
site's hard disk. The requirements are:
All files to be copied to the remote site just once (i.e. so that 200Gb does
not get transferred every night/week or month over broadband connection).
From then on we only need to back up new or changed files.
For Changed files, we need to keep up to 3 (or a configurable number of) prior
versions
We need to see a simple report showing backup completion and any issues on the
way
To restore, we need to be able to easily select a file from a directory
structure on the backup machine, and choose the most recent or one of the
previous versions.
I don't know of any backup software that runs quite like this (does anyone?).
Clearly CVS would just be a component of such a system - yet it seems so
possible that it really aught to be attempted. The key part is in a simple
interfaces for
- selecting servers and directories that should be backed up
- a scheduler
- a reporter
- a restore interface.
Am I being mad, or are there loads of existing products that do this, or does
this sound like a great idea?
Merlin Beedell
Senior Application Developer
Corporate Internet Ltd.
Tel: 020-7403 9900
Fax: 020-7403 7070
Mobile: 078 1188 0207
www.corporateinternet.com
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