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"Bruce Hill" <bhill at euphonix.com> wrote in message news:mailman.6.1053107635.1176.cvsnt at cvsnt.org... > It appears that some of the backup scripts recently posted > do backup to a different folder on the same drive. > If so, this provides very little protection. > > At a minimum, your backup should go to a different physical > drive. Even better is to backup to a different machine, > and ideally to a different location to provide protection > against fire, flood, etc. > > Also, for those setting up CVS repositories. If CVS seems > sluggish, it could be your virus protection software. The > CVS web site has warnings about CVS operations failing with > McAfee or Norton virus software, but even with other virus > software, if you don't disable virus checking in your > repository it will slow down your CVS operations. > > Bruce Hill > Sr Software Systems Engineer > Euphonix Inc. > Digital Audio Systems > 220 Portage Ave. > Palo Alto, CA 94306 > ph (650)846-1177 > fax (650)855-0410 > email bhill at euphonix.com Well, I had a line in my script that copied the repository to a different machine, but I had REMarked it out while ago. So, I simply removed it from the posting as irrelavant. The server is backed-up to tape weekly, so I know the most work that would be lost is one week. That doesn't count the working versions of anything on any client machines that may post-date any recovered data. The tape backups are so that I can recover from a lost drive. The nightly backups are so I can recover from my personal scewups. I only burn the nightly backups to CD-R as the suspenders to match my belt. Anyway, knock on wood, my personal screwups out-frequent hard drive failures 10 to 1. -- Dave "stirkus ersu venete"