Re: Moving to pgfoundry

On 6-Sep-06, at 9:55 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:

> The world rejoiced as pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com (Dave Cramer) wrote:
>> On 6-Sep-06, at 5:14 PM, Oliver Jowett wrote:
>>
>>> Dave Cramer wrote:
>>>> On 6-Sep-06, at 4:14 PM, Oliver Jowett wrote:
>>>>> Dave Cramer wrote:
>>>>>> It would appear this is inevitable.
>>>>>> What do we need to do to make this happen ?
>>>>>> Move CVS
>>>>>> anything else ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't this a question you should be asking the gborg/pgfoundry
>>>>> maintainers?
>>>> The question is do we want to retain CVS history ? If not this is
>>>> trivial. If so; not so trivial.
>>>
>>> We would need to retain the CVS branches we have, and we'd need
>>> *access* to CVS history even if it's not actually live in the
>>> repository that we use.
>>>
>>> What's the issue with preserving history?
>>
>> The two machines are physically different, so consider this moving
>> the repository. My recollection is that you have to physically move
>> the entire repository; is there another way ?
>>
>> I don't think we can count on having the history available on gborg,
>> they're planning on pulling the plug.
>
> If the recovery goes OK, it *ought* to be possible to copy the CVS
> repository as set of files from old server to new server.

Right
> We're hoping for that for Slony-I; we'd certainly like to be able to
> preserve that old history.
>
> I'm hearing mixed reviews as to the merits of pgFoundry as an
> alternative; apparently it's already somewhat overloaded, so that some
> of the admins are concerned about adding more to it. There's some new
> hardware (an AMD-64 box of some sort), but it hasn't been fully tested
> out yet.
>
> On the Slony-I side, we're talking over some other options than
> pgFoundry; JDBC seems important enough that I would urge making sure
> you maintain remote backups of CVS whatever your direction is.
What are the other options you are discussing ? We may be interested
too.
>
> One failure: Shame on them; if it falls over again, and there aren't
> good backups, *that* gets embarrassing...
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