[ANN] The FreeRIDE Project Wiki has moved to RubyForge

[MikkelFJ]

"Curt Hibbs" <curt@hibbs.com> wrote in message
news:INEGJNJOFAMNDPNEABNECEDKHIAA.curt@hibbs.com.. .

> We've Moved!
>
> 2003-08-15 FreeRIDE wiki moved to RubyForge
>

What is the backup strategy on RubyForge?
It is nice to have a centralized source location, but if all the source
disappears this would be less fortunate...


Mikkel

[Tom Copeland]

> > A very good question. We do backups via an rsync every six

> hours with

> > the online service iBackup. You can read about this and

> other RubyForge

> > sysadmin details here:
> >
> > [url]http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/5/11/rubyforge_site_status.html[/url]

>
> This looks nice and affordable - perhaps I should get me such a backup
> service...?

Yup, it's pretty nifty - the rsync thing works quite well.

> Another concern is that the backup account password is stored locally

so if

> the equipment is stolen, you may worstcase also loose your backup if

the

> culprit deletes the data. But then you could have a service with the
> password in-memory only.

Yup, both Rich and I have the backup service password on other machines.

Yours,

Tom

[Tom Copeland]

> [url]http://rubyforge.org/docman/?group_id=5[/url]

>
> An easier location to remember than the first link, I think.
>
>
>[url]http://support.rubyforge.org/docs[/url] would be even easier :)
>
>Gavin

Better still:

[url]http://rubyforge.org/docs/[/url]

Ah, the meta refresh element... it's a good 'un.

Tom