Re: [CentOS] documentation on cvsup for backing up cvs repositories

On 9/4/06, ankush grover ankushcentos@gmail.com wrote:

I am trying to find out documentation on cvsup for backing up cvs repositories on Centos 4.0

CVSup is a FreeBSD based tool for mirroring a CVS archive. I wouldn't call it a tool to "backup" a CVS archive. CVSup doesn't download meta-information and history information associated with files in a repository.

Make sure you know what you're getting into before using it.

Be aware as well that CVSup is written in Modula-3, which means it's not as straight-forward to compile. I'm not sure that a C client has been written.

If I were you and I didn't know much about cvsup, I'd look at something like rsync or dirvish to backup my CVS repository.

Phil.