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Re: FileSystem Question

From: William Pursell <bill.pursell(at)gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jun 30 2007 - 18:05:41 EDT

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:29:58PM +0000, Manon Metten wrote:

>> On 6/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty  wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 06:45:03PM +0000, Manon Metten wrote:
>>> I've never used it but you can probably use a CVS repository for this
>>> more conveniently.
>> I don't know nothing about CVS repositories. Can you explain a little
>> more, please?

>
> Hi Manon,
>
> See the apt descriptions for subversion and cvs. From the description
> of cvs:
> CVS is a version control system, which allows you to keep old
> versions of files (usually source code), keep a log of who,
> when, and why changes occurred, etc.
>
> As I understand it, a user will 'check out' a file from the cvs to work
> on it. While it is 'checked out', others can read that version of the
> file but they can't 'check it out' to edit it. The person who has it
> checked out can then check the file back in with whatever changes they
> made. The cvs then keeps diffs and checkpoints so that the state of the
> repository at any point in time can be recreated. I.e. the question
> "what did that file look like on June 15?" is a valid question that the
> cvs can answer.
>
> The whole cvs sits on top of a regular file system. There's nothing
> preventing root from directly editing a file owned by cvs.
>
> I think that there are web-based interfaces to the cvs so that files can
> be retreived over https as well.
>
> This is all I know about cvs and it may not be accurate.

Keep in mind that CVS is extremely old, and entirely obsolete. Subversion was a new implementation of the same idea, and did in fact address many of CVS's shortcomings. However, if you are going to look into using a VCS (Version Control System) for doing backups like this, look into git. http://git.or.cz

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