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I got a small question regarding how some of you are doing the backup of your CVS repository. I have a CVSNT server with a repository containing many projects under it. For 25 gigs of data under the cvs repository, I got 230 000 files and 40 000 folders. I am using the backup Software, Retrospect from Dantz. The backup software is installed on a different server and it's making the backup through a 1Gbps ethernet connection with a retrospect client software installed on the cvsnt server running windows 2k server. A couple of weeks ago the backup software started giving an error message when trying to do the daily backup (during the night when no one is in the office). The error would be generated when the backup software is scanning the cvsnt server to get a listing of all the files and then start doing a backup of the cvs repository. I would always get an error message saying out of memory. At first I tought that it was related to the server running Retrospect and it would need a reboot. It didn't solved the problem and the backup server got 1 Gigs of RAM. The cvsnt server also got 1 Gigs of RAM. I found out on the website of Dantz the memory requirements related to the problem that I have - http://kb.dantz.com/display/2/kb/article.asp?aid=5417&n=16&s= >From that webpages it says that for backing up 1,439,510 files and folders, I need only 512 megs of RAM. I am obviously well beyond that and still I got an error message out of memory. I will be switching to a different backup software in about 2 months, we'll probably go with Veritas Backupexec and now I'm wondering if I'll get the same kind of trouble. My question is, for those of you doing a backup of a repository of about the same size as I have (or bigger) do you have any memory problems. Would you recommend installing the backup software on the same server as the cvs server or doing a network backup is fine? Or do you know about any backup software that can handles easily repositories that contains a lot of files and folder? Any input on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Alex Vanier