From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Glanzmann Subject: RFD Use git for off-site backups Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 11:34:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20070513093417.GA18546@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: GIT X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 13 11:34:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HnATB-0006tP-6w for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 11:34:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756864AbXEMJeT (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 05:34:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756924AbXEMJeT (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 05:34:19 -0400 Received: from faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.30.103]:51730 "EHLO faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756864AbXEMJeS (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 05:34:18 -0400 Received: by faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Postfix, from userid 31401) id 79BBF3F376; Sun, 13 May 2007 11:34:17 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-05-02) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, I am thinking about using git for doing differential backups of a whole machines. And I would like to know what is necessary to obtain that. In such a scenario the machine to be backed up should have a local index file but sends its objects directly to the remote machine via git-via-ssh or git protocol. Is it possible to store extra information like extended attributes / acls in git? I don't care about named pipes, sockets and device files for the moment. Thomas