On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Andy Taylor <andy.taylor AT sift DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> The 'big picture' is that our developers use the
> restored files on the network file share server as copies of live website
> files, so when they are developing they can be sure they are looking at
> relatively up-to-date copies of the files which are on our live servers. We
> could have rsynced those files directly from the live server, but using
> BackupPC saves on duplication and has the added benefit of testing our
> backups.

Have you considered using a central version control system like
subversion for this instead?  You would need to have a process to
ensure that the live system was always updated from a tagged/known
revision, but then updating all the development workspaces to stay in
sync becomes easier and more efficient.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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