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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Eric Frederich <eric.frederich@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git as a backup system?
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:04:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101108180427.GA4005@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikcBvN+5hkcc9+xt291B4Gm+Yhe53R3qY0PNt97@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Frederich wrote:

> Am I insane?  Are there other tools more suited toward this?
> I just thought of using Git since I looked at my 9G worth of data out
> there in my backup directory that is almost exactly the same and said
> "git could handle this well".

You might like bup: https://github.com/apenwarr/bup#readme

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-08 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-08 18:01 Git as a backup system? Eric Frederich
2010-11-08 18:04 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-11-08 18:26 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2010-11-08 20:06 ` Dirk Süsserott
2010-11-08 20:25 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-11-09  0:17 ` Patrick Rouleau

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