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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git as a backup system?
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 12:04:27 -0600
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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