FreeTDS Development Group

["David Fraser" <david AT abelon.com>]

Hi James,

Just to be clear - Are you looking for a volunteer to take the
tarball nightly? - which I can do easily. I have a cron job ready
to roll in fact. And the tarball will be backed up too, thanks to
our IS folks.

Or are you also looking for someone to host a CVS server,
which I don't think I can manage?

Let me know if you still need someone to do the former.

Cheers,

David

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David Fraser, Consultant, Abelon Systems Ltd, UK
http://www.abelon.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>
To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 11:33 PM
Subject: [freetds] CVS backup


> All,
>
> We don't currently have any plan for backing up the source code archive
> (CVS).  It seems to me we should, because Source Forge explicity places
> that resposibility on its users.
>
> Source Forge makes the entire archive available nightly as a tarball:
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/freetds-cvsroot.tar.bz2
>
> I think we should have two backups i.e., two places that download the
> above tarball nightly and can make it available for restoration to another
> CVS server on a day's notice.  These should be handled by people
> interested in the project who won't incur bandwidth charges, who are
> comfortable editing a crontab, and who'll review the logs to make sure the
> file really arrived.
>
> I think I shouldn't be one of the two.  Too many eggs in one basket, and
> I'm not very religious about reviewing logs.
>
> If you're in a position to do this, and wouldn't mind, I'd be very
> grateful.  And if Source Forge goes away at some point, many others would
> be, too.
>
> Many thanks for your kind consideration.
>
> --jkl
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