[ale] RCS

[Frank Johnson]

Are you open to paying for a data backup service that you control? All 
over the internet?

FJ

>Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:36:08 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Matt Perry <matt at primefactor.com>
>To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
>Subject: [ale] RCS
>
>Here's my problem:
>
>	I maintain a very large web site on a Linux box that spans over a
>gigabyte of data.  I'd like to implement some form of revision control,
>however, I'm not interested in CVS with people "checking out" items to
>work on and "checking in" the completed items. 
>
>	What I'd like to do instead is have a snapshot of the site made
>daily (say at 4 am) that just saves the changes.  That way I can roll 
back
>the web site to a certain day or just roll back a directory to a 
certain
>day.  Can RCS do this?  Will it handle revision control of binaries as
>well as html files?  Handling binaries is critical.  Not so critial but
>still very important is that it will store only the differences between
>one revision of the binary and the next. 
>
>	And before you ask:  I have no tape backup or any such hardware
>backup system, nor is there any way to install one.  This has to happen
>all on the machine at hand.
>
>	I've looked all over the pace trying to find information on RCS or
>any revision control system.  I'm not having good results so I decided 
to
>ask here.
>
>-- 
>Matt Perry | matt at primefactor dot com
>"After ecstasy, laundry." - Zen writing
>
>

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