Re: GitHub Backup

On 25 Sep 2014, at 24:47 , Randall Leeds <randall@bleeds.info> wrote:

> Noticed this from the minutes (sorry I wasn't there today):
> 
> | <fjh> we should explore automating pull of github for w3c archive as backup mechanism
> 
> If people feel it's necessary or it's mandated by some process, we can ask around with the ASF infra team because I know they've got lots of tooling set up for GitHub mirrors.
> 
> But also note that _everyone_ who clones the repo has an archive of the repo. That's DVCS :-D. So, while I think it's a valuable thing for long-term preservation, in the short term it's probably completely unnecessary from a disaster-recovery standpoint as long as any of us are actively involved in the project.

I agree. I do not think we have a real danger as long as some people regularly update their local repository. I know I do it cca. once a week, so I have a complete copy on my disc automatically.

Ivan


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