| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
| Subject: | Re: CVS corruption/mistagging? |
| Date: | 2007-08-15 07:24:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20070815072455.GX9206@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Good, but the salient followup questions to that are (1) backed up to
> >> where exactly?, and (2) how many days' past backups could we get at,
> >> if we had to?
>
> > They are dumped to a NFS share on this schedule. That NFS share is
> > dumped to tape by systems at Conova - I'll let Stefan fill in the
> > details about that.
>
> That's good as far as it goes, but seeing that PG is a worldwide
> organization now, I wonder whether our primary CVS shouldn't have
> backups on several continents. Pardon my paranoia ... but our
> collective arses have been saved by offsite backups at least once
> already ...
We already have that -- there's plenty of people who have rsync'ed
copies of the repository. Now, I don't back it up, so if someone makes
a mistake my copy will faithfully follow it.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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