Hi all,

I'm planning to store my /home dir in CVS and now asks if someone have any experiences with it. What is the problems, what issues should I think of? Is it a good idea at all? Is BK better?

Basically, a script which runs every half hour and does this:

1.
Checks if the user cyth (or whatever you tell the script to check for) is logged in. If not, scans the syslog and checks whether he was logged since last time the script ran.

2.
Scans the homedir; new files is marked for commit, binary files marked as binary files and is then commited to the repository with any changes to the other files.

Sounds good? Any ideas, comments?

(If I have _alot_ of time someday I'll write an HOWTO..)

cheers,
Frans

I've never backed up a complete home directory by using cvs. I'd probably choose for a normal backup method, but I guess cvs would be also possible. I guess it depends on the type of files you have in your home directory. It will definetly make it easier to revert back to older versions.
Just one thing, you mentioned it would check whether it's a binary file or not. Cvs will substitute keywords unless you add the file with something like -ko. When I add files to cvs I usually determine this manually whether or not I want keywords substituted. I guess since it's the home directory you can't really know before hand what kind of files will be placed there. I guess you'll have to choose there whether you add them all with -ko or determine what type of file it is and somehow split them into categories. You could always use file to determine what type it is, but I don't know how fool proof that would be.

Here is something else you might want to read
http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/cvs...er/cvs_18.html