Re: Automatic Revision Control.

[Chris Kacoroski <ckacoroski@nsd.org>]

Eric,

Check out BackupPC.  You can set it to run an incremental backup every 
hour (or even at a smaller time increment) to another disk and keep as 
many as you want.  Restores will literally take seconds via the web 
interface.  It has Debian package so it only takes a few minutes to 
install.  I suspect that you could have this running in less than an 
hour if you can find a machine to put it on.

cheers,

ski

Eric van der Paardt wrote:
> > On Friday 01 April 2005 15:15, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > To me, it sounds like he does need some version control system.
> > > That way, he could determine if, for example, only 1 person is
> > > responsible for corrupting the files.
> >
> > Hmm, perhaps.  "Corruption" sounds like a programmatic or hardware
>
> fault
>
> > to me
> > though, rather than user error.  Could be wrong.
>
>
> I have a feeling it has something to do with wireless laptop users...
> but as to date I've been unable to figure it out.  Basically this is
> knee-jerk request from a demanding project manager... who angry because
> we sometimes loose 6 hours worth of updates because I have to restore
> from last nights backup.
>
> I just finished charting out the flow of what I want to happen, I guess
> I'll get the DB and tables going... Should be a fairly straight forward
> I guess, haven't done much with file operations and PHP, but how hard
> can it be.

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Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, ckacoroski@nsd.org, 425-489-6263