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Hi Arthur, as i understand, mirroring can be done with ANY file mirroring tool, as CVS is file oriented. (so even a simple copy would do it, of cource this would be very inefficient, and better file sync tool exists). Do you recommend a special file sync tool ? The business case is: we have an external supplyer for software and both, we and the supplyer are on different locations and both want access to the sources. Best would be if both have read/write. The repository should be at the supplyer site, as the do a lot of ci/co. any help appreciated :-) kind regards, Bernhard. Arthur Barrett wrote: > Bernhard, > > Just a quick note from the commercial side of CVSNT. > > Mirroring is quite simple and we do it internally (and just as well > since each of our servers has had disk crashes in the past 12 months). > > All pro support (level 2 and higher) customers receive all the software > they need to do this. It doesn't actually say that on the web site > though - hopefully will soon. > > Synchronizing is not currently recommended. After analyzing over a > hundred different commercial requests for this - every time we found > there was a better solution. CVS was designed to work over a WAN very > well - so it does not suffer from the bandwidth problems that other > systems do that need these synchoronisation features. > > Please post the business case for your question, then people with the > experience of solving similar issues can recommend a technical solution. > What business problem are you attempting to solve (or considering > solving) by using synchronisation? > > Someone in this thread mentions distributed repositories. Just a point > of semantics: distributed repositories are great - but synchronizing > centralised repositories is not the same. > > Regards, > > > Arthur Barrett > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf > Of Bernhard Merkle > Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2005 9:27 PM > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org > Subject: [cvsnt] mirror/synchronize cvs repositories (CVSNTUpd) ? > > > Hi there, > > what it the recommended way to mirror or synchronize cvs repositories ? > > I would describe mirroring as: > server A does READ/WRITE access, while server B only has READ > access. > > - This sould be possible with CVSNTUp or simply copy the whole > repository ? (while CVSNTUp seems to be more efficient ;-) > - Has anyone used CVSNTUpd ? Any problems ? > - It there a better method in CVSNT ? (so not to use CVSNTUpd) ? > - Does it matter if A is "normal" cvs on unix and B is cvs-nt on nt ? > (or vice versa ?) > > I would describe synchronize as: > BOTH server A and B are doing READ/WRITE . > > - Is this possible with cvs ? > (I can imagine all kinds of problems with time synchronization, > conflicting changes etc.). I think cvs is NOT designed for distribued > repositories with READ/WRITE access, right ? > So only one master with READ/WRITE and N mirror with READ, right ? > > > thanks for you help, > kind regards, > Bernhard. > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook