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Trevor Leybourne wrote: > I've talked to our IT department about continuous backups using RSYNC but > they are not comfortable about that as they are worried that someone will be > updating a file while it is backed up and the repository may get into a > invalid state. > That pretty much can't happen as all the individual files are updated atomically. The worst that can happen is that you'll backup in the middle of a commit and not get the entire commit - which is a minor issue compared to the prospect of losing the entire repository (and the fact that if you're recovering a backup it means something pretty bad has happened already). Tony