The goal of the CVS repository is to enable collaboration (at the very least between you and your adviser) and to offer some form of backup. Please do not use it as your only backup.
The WALAN CVS setup is based on Dr. Mueller's CVS setup . Follow the same steps as in Dr. Mueller's page with the following exceptions:
export CVS_RSH=ssh export CVSROOT=<firstname>@arabella.ece.ncsu.edu:/home/cvs/cvs