>> It looks to me like having some form of networked machine that
>> one could use as a mirror would probably be the way to go.
>
>Exactly what I do. I don't bother with micro managing backups and
repository versions -- I just run an incremental backup over my
>systems once a day usually (not counting that a commit to a
>repository, which I do more often, is already a form of backup:
>you now have a second copy, one in your sandbox and one in your
>repository). Disk-to-disk over the network makes this so fast that
>I really don't care whether there are a few megs of repository
>files in there :)


OK I think this answers my immediate questions, until I come to actually set
up such a system.

Thanks for the various comments. It has been enlightening to someone who has
"known about" but not used any form of CVS before.

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