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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Incremental object transfer
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:09:33 -0600
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Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> as already said some time ago, I'm using git to back up maildirs
> on a machine w/ relatively low ram. The biggest problem for now
> is the initial push (maybe later larger subsequent pushes could
> be also affected too): it takes quite a long time to get everything
> packed, and if the connection breaks (the box is sitting behind
> a dynamic-IP DSL link), everything has to be restarted :(

Maybe use "git bundle" and then transfer by rsync?