Community technical support mailing list was retired 2010 and replaced with a professional technical support team. For assistance please contact: Pre-sales Technical support via email to sales@march-hare.com.
Bernhard, Just a quick note from the commercial side of CVSNT. Mirroring is quite simple and we do it internally (and just as well since each of our servers has had disk crashes in the past 12 months). All pro support (level 2 and higher) customers receive all the software they need to do this. It doesn't actually say that on the web site though - hopefully will soon. Synchronizing is not currently recommended. After analyzing over a hundred different commercial requests for this - every time we found there was a better solution. CVS was designed to work over a WAN very well - so it does not suffer from the bandwidth problems that other systems do that need these synchoronisation features. Please post the business case for your question, then people with the experience of solving similar issues can recommend a technical solution. What business problem are you attempting to solve (or considering solving) by using synchronisation? Someone in this thread mentions distributed repositories. Just a point of semantics: distributed repositories are great - but synchronizing centralised repositories is not the same. Regards, Arthur Barrett -----Original Message----- From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Bernhard Merkle Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2005 9:27 PM To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org Subject: [cvsnt] mirror/synchronize cvs repositories (CVSNTUpd) ? Hi there, what it the recommended way to mirror or synchronize cvs repositories ? I would describe mirroring as: server A does READ/WRITE access, while server B only has READ access. - This sould be possible with CVSNTUp or simply copy the whole repository ? (while CVSNTUp seems to be more efficient ;-) - Has anyone used CVSNTUpd ? Any problems ? - It there a better method in CVSNT ? (so not to use CVSNTUpd) ? - Does it matter if A is "normal" cvs on unix and B is cvs-nt on nt ? (or vice versa ?) I would describe synchronize as: BOTH server A and B are doing READ/WRITE . - Is this possible with cvs ? (I can imagine all kinds of problems with time synchronization, conflicting changes etc.). I think cvs is NOT designed for distribued repositories with READ/WRITE access, right ? So only one master with READ/WRITE and N mirror with READ, right ? thanks for you help, kind regards, Bernhard. _______________________________________________ cvsnt mailing list cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook