From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jason Sewall" Subject: Repository backups Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:14:43 -0400 Message-ID: <31e9dd080709190814t6ef8b725w8a8320685e70578b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 19 17:16:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IY1GL-0000lZ-IC for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:14:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755564AbXISPOp (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:14:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754560AbXISPOo (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:14:44 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.232]:51100 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755263AbXISPOo (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:14:44 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so178986wxd for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:14:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=PP8hMVA7bWIfIDb3+zO/EWqtlH7Uti3M/Su6izNhGmI=; b=r2B9jkNLTbhem08IgkjMxyOCxXDB0oj6cd0ToSGYo7mZByvJrNAXjM1enCwgzHeqibw9Q3quVQkTarmLTJx0IBEyi/eJkkokhKKtN217gGm4g/+kSfRWPY6GVz3beTd60DWjSefraVh+v/yEu43xyOxUdOSOjfNL4TIZ3L12RoE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=a8b581XozU7v5pIKL7ic7Qa/h1nar5U7sf2DWDGCX4y9ATEpPw3tfr1As688ZuLkiSoJhdpS6Sty6YunYbAIXT74+EJK4bXhGx9TSE6SBRW9eeCrLkCe+D/TtkcFgX6DK8XVNSWoI4bjNUcdcVXWKSkfr4YIf4b+9fnjE2lQnVk= Received: by 10.90.100.2 with SMTP id x2mr681697agb.1190214883482; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:14:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.36.19 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:14:43 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I'd like to build a modest safety net for my various git repositories in case of catastrophic failure. Currently, everything is backed up on machines in the same building. I'm not expecting the Computer Science building to get hit by terrorists and we're in a seismically stable place, but there *is* construction nearby... Anyway, my university offers a "mass storage" tape-based service that is supposedly very safe. We are encouraged to give them single big files for backups. The temptation to just make bundles of all branch heads is great but probably not what I really want - things like reflogs don't get handed off with those, if I understand correctly. Is there any argument against just making a tar of a bare clone of the repo? Any other ideas? I'm reluctant to actually clone into the tape (SAM-FS, which I know nothing about) because of the number of files it would create and the lack of git tools on the machines with access to this machine. Thanks, Jason