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Mike Eggleston wrote:
> Morning,
> 
> I expect soon to need a way to preserve the targets and products of
> internal builds. I originally asked if I can use our internal source
> code repository for this function (perforce) and was told no. Now I'm
> wondering if I can do what I need using bacula. Internally there are many
> build machines. Nightly these build machines build the latest version of
> an internal application. In the morning, after this build is complete,
> many users rsync the newest built application to their workstations
> for testing.
> 
> I also have a need to follow something like a grandfather-father-son
> system of keeping a version of the application around for a period of
> time in case the users need to look at a version of the application
> from a few days/weeks/months ago to see if a just found problem is in
> a previous version.
> 
> I'm thinking if I put a bacula client on each build box and start
> a backup of the application and its files when the build is complete
> on that specific platform, and when a user needs an application they
> simply do a restore to their local workstation... this is getting
> complicated... maybe it's not a good idea after all.

Really sounds like a better place for something like git, SVN, or CVS.
Bacula could be used, but it's probably not the best tool.

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