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From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: Roald de Vries <rdv@roalddevries.nl>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: backups with git
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:20:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90908100620l2ddc9fa9t507990bae58d6031@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41CB836B-6057-448E-805F-F25EAF765D27@roalddevries.nl>

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Roald de Vries<rdv@roalddevries.nl> wrote:
> I'm thinking of using git as a backup solution for my whole system, setting

There are lots of little problems. The two main ones are, IMHO

 - permissions & ownership
 - large files

Some ppl use it for their homedir, and it can be a moderate success as
long as they don't deal with large files.

cheers,


m
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-10 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-10  8:27 backups with git Roald de Vries
2009-08-10 10:51 ` John Tapsell
2009-08-10 13:20 ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
2009-08-10 13:38 ` Sitaram Chamarty

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