Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with multiple restores

It's not something I had considered for this use case as the files in question are uploaded site files (for example, images) as opposed to site code, and can sometimes total up to 10GB+. I'm assuming you thought I was talking about code files which is why you suggested a VCS?

On 17 June 2015 at 15:28, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

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.

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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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