Re: how to backup git

[Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 06:07:28PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 12 May 2008, Heikki Orsila wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:08:21PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > No, rsync is particularly dumb in that respect.  The safest thing 
> > > would be to back up the reflogs first (e.g. with rsync), then repack 
> > > and then clone (the clone will transmit the objects referenced by the 
> > > reflogs, too).  Note: the same holds _not_ true for a simple fetch.
> > > 
> > > But then, you usually do not want to back up reflogs anyway, since 
> > > they are purely local and not visible to anybody else.
> > 
> > Is there a simple and efficient mechanism for incremental backups?
> 
> Umm.  "git fetch"?
> 
> Like I said, it does not get the reflogs, but if you want to back up a 
> repository, the safest is to clone once, and fetch later.  Or you could 
> set up a remote with the --mirror option, if you want to preserve the 
> refs' namespaces.

Preferably some solution that does not require too much understanding of 
Git internals so that admins will actually use it, instead of hacking 
their own inefficient backup scripts.

Could someone please write a "git-backup" script?-)

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