From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 12:39: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC04137B401 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:39:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CEC043EA9 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:39:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 28235 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2002 20:39:01 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Dec 2002 20:39:01 -0000 Message-ID: <3DF25C16.3000600@liwing.de> Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 21:37:42 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silly cvsup question. References: <3846.192.168.1.10.1039287347.squirrel@email.unixhideout.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mike wrote: > Hello. i use cvsup to backup certain critical folders on the machine labs, > to the machine labs2 automatically every night. My question is this. If i > add new stuff to say, /home/mike (or wherever) then that gets mirrored at > night and everything does its job as i want it to. However, if i DELETE > something from /home/mike (or whereever) It never gets deleted from labs2. > So its not "synching" correctly. For example i just went to zip -r > cvsup-backup cvsup-backup on labs2, so i can pull it to XP and burn it, > and i realized it had my library still in there which i deleted months > ago. Any help on this is appreciated, and no need to CC me, as my website > mirrors your archives and they will soon span across multiple pages as > well as be searchable. > I do not know how to do it using cvsup, but if you use a simple cvs-repository, it will work fine if you do a "cvs up" on your backup machine (regular check in preconditioned). But if you use cvs, it may have much more sense to backup the entire repository, because you have all made changes available after a restore. Jens -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message