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From: Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@...>
Subject: Re: Re: Gentoo infra backups
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:39:52 +1200
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Monday 26 March 2007, bret curtis wrote:
> >> Only wimps use tape backup: *real **men* just upload their important
> >> stuff on *ftp*, and let the rest of the world mirror it. -- LT :1996
> >
> > actually, i wonder if this would be useful ... we set up a master backup
> > server where we post raw svn/cvs/etc... stuff and then allow people to
> > setup mirrors of it ...
>
> If we ever move to a distributed SCM, this will be solved by anyone with
> a checkout. It may be worth putting the time into fixing a DSCM to do
> what we need rather than setting up other things like this.

Absolutely!

I believe Monotone ( as well as many others ) would do what is wanted.

* dev-util/monotone
     Available versions:  (1)  0.29 (~)0.32 (~)0.33
     Homepage:            http://monotone.ca
     Description:         Monotone Distributed Version Control System

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