Re: bkbits.net is down

From: Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Date: Sat Jun 28 2003 - 14:47:26 EST


On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 08:38:57PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> Tapes are a pain; but at the type of 40GB range is it worth considering
> a pile of external USB/Firewire hard drives?

Maybe it's not obvious to the none BK users. BK _replicates_ the database
of revision history.

        cd /tmp
        bk clone /repos/l/linux/linux-2.5
        rm -rf /repos/l/linux/linux-2.5
        bk clone /tmp/linux-2.5 /repos/l/linux/linux-2.5

That's a noop. Nothing was lost. And BK is excellent at incremental
updates, far better than anything else in existence.

And BK does in file and cross file integrity checks.

So backing up using BK to another mirror is faster, simpler, and more
reliable.

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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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