Yes, it's on a server currently being hosted in MA by a friend.  Use to be
local, but I lost my free local pipe, so now a friend colo's it for me
(still free).

It's run on RAID 5, so I should back it up, but the odds of losing more than
one disk drive at a time is extremely low, so I just let the raid take care
of it.  If there's something I *really* care about, like my photo collection
(family, friends, pets, many of whom have passed), then I do one of two
things.  Either I make a tarball of the repo on the server and download it
to my home machine and burn it to DVDR, or I do a dump of the repository to
a dump file, and turn that in to a tarball, and download and burn to DVDR.

Since the repo is in two places at once at any given time (on the server,
and locally), I can always make a backup of the current snapshot on my local
machine.  But doing so would lose the history aspect of the system.

As for the RAID, I have found it to be extremely dependable.  I have gone
through several drives on my current server, and it hasn't skipped a beat
yet.  Just replace the dead drive, do a recover on the raid array, and all
is well.


Oh, and as for how often, I usually back things up when I make major
changes.  Most things don't change often, so I don't find a need to download
and burn that often.  Maybe once every 6 months or so.

On 1/16/06, Alan B. Pearce <A.B.Pearce@rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >I personally have *everything* in SVN.  I keep my CV in
> >there, all my documents in the "My Docs" folder on windows.
> >I keep all my development materials in there.  I mean I
> >have **gigs** worth of material in SVN repos. Right now
> >my dev directory is 1.5 gigs in size.  I also have about
> >5 gigs worth of photos in another repo.
>
> Is this on a personal server? If so how do you back it up, and how often?
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