NYCPHP Meetup

[Michael Hernandez]

Not to be a subversion zealot but I've been using it to back up my  
home directory for a while now and it's great. I have a web hosting  
account with dreamhost (that's not a plug nor a recommendation) and  
they have subversion available. I have a directory in my /home called  
mikesfiles and I put things I need backed up in there. All I have to  
do is check the stuff in and out.  It works out for me because I  
never know what state my home pc or my laptop will be in, so it's a  
remote backup solution in a sense.

I'm sure other syncing software can do the job but it really is worth  
it if you know subversion already, because it's F/OSS, and it does  
offer many other options, especially in a case where you have a  
secure remote machine holding your files. It's actually saved my butt  
a few times where I forgot my laptop and needed some files that I had  
in my repo.

-Mike