lvu export/import

Kok, Auke sofar at foo-projects.org
Thu Aug 2 22:41:51 CEST 2007


Terry Chan wrote:
> Here's a suggestion:  use rsync to manage moonbase copies across multiple
> machines. Why re-invent the wheel?
> 
> On my home network of lunar boxes I have .svn moonbases on all the machines.
> I just have an rsync server setup on the "master" box and then I just tell
> all the other boxes to do "rsync -auv --delete --progress master::moonbase/ ."
> 
> I don't see the need to basically rewrite rsync functionality or a portion
> of it just to include it in lunar tools for the very few lunar admins that
> might possibly use developer moonbases across multiple machines.

rsync doesn't work if you want to store historical backups. It's much easier to 
have a single tarball sit somewhere that's generated by a single command without 
the need to have a network connection than anything else.

Auke


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