From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Tapsell Subject: Re: backups with git Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:51:13 +0100 Message-ID: <43d8ce650908100351w10e4d49cne8cff6f7e900f07a@mail.gmail.com> References: <41CB836B-6057-448E-805F-F25EAF765D27@roalddevries.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Roald de Vries X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 10 12:51:25 2009 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 1MaSTK-0006rE-Kv for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:51:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753804AbZHJKvO (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:51:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753794AbZHJKvO (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:51:14 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.217.213]:49128 "EHLO mail-gx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753657AbZHJKvN (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:51:13 -0400 Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so4007890gxk.13 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:51:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6a/r5DwTHIDa3jmN+CYHM+BjQ3pvj+Cdkj76nzSOb5w=; b=swqZc4EwzBbaJ28o2fYQDjVo8WxGafkPkrHTuvrSlqpKz80d/IyoalPFeY6bt1iL56 WM767JMDxoBZb9uI+iZ/pHkiErvHvl4oxz/rtheocwWdlKFhjRB8qfLe3+xT9uNZom4A 6X42ms3fi+jx/Ume1bX2wlhmr78ycNE6gobhg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KXavbIiGj4wpwAmvbsXtEnaKQmvL0tz6Ztgq4zUA/fgJyCqX26MxRFNb768LDRPNdS c3NlAH8arquwk+lnJ2XaAmbJF12dXDgJ6HD8I+YGhii9R+3QtdjDYO78F/ro0btNWVIU 5e6haX2LZq5ZrwKVqGhR8dMHXtWChWteoxF4o= Received: by 10.151.78.9 with SMTP id f9mr7906082ybl.329.1249901473700; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:51:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <41CB836B-6057-448E-805F-F25EAF765D27@roalddevries.nl> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2009/8/10 Roald de Vries : > Dear all, > > I'm thinking of using git as a backup solution for my whole system, setting > my $GIT_DIR to something like "/backupdisc/backup". Does that seem sensible? > In his Google tech talk, Linus said that git was not good at huge projects; > I guess that would apply to backups. On the other hand, maybe a backup > doesn't need to be as fast as he wants git to be for projects. Has anybody > used git like this? And was it a good experience? Perhaps you want something more like btrfs. John