From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langhoff Subject: Re: backups with git Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:20:59 -0400 Message-ID: <46a038f90908100620l2ddc9fa9t507990bae58d6031@mail.gmail.com> References: <41CB836B-6057-448E-805F-F25EAF765D27@roalddevries.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Roald de Vries X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Aug 10 15:21:10 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 1MaUoH-0002lG-TH for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:21:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754572AbZHJNVA (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:21:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754569AbZHJNVA (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:21:00 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:47674 "EHLO mail-bw0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754232AbZHJNU7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:20:59 -0400 Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so2560206bwz.37 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:20:59 -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=UG9wg4wM3nsuDhN7Ny5tDbr9AORM/cAhjmMMY/YqvhQ=; b=pqVi98h4tYpHQoyw3fGi49xULW2lDnNBsjiWefHq4JUF1DR9PaH6TNSBfnvGai+HDu 0eRBdSxSCJtxZ1rnxg10VvlHZIyGdVkZrU56MqBY7ihkveYeujsiuS1xU9ZPpK3bjlET OruWkJ6ZxmPUQ8cYI7b0deG4l9chRXgG7wcKc= 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=rYXzxugDwTievaIbLWwKVteJncrTTsVld1m1f2XOeJIYXefSi4I1JmYrnhakoWfjsG NWeNCIrS1zoX5WF+HijNmRPMVY1MggfvnqDBjimyOR4bMLnkPaZ3T+78cDYMQu4MNQ6I j3v9jHB8vN35BtA8wi0xfGo7F/y/unZ3BM/S8= Received: by 10.223.104.74 with SMTP id n10mr211730fao.101.1249910459109; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:20:59 -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: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Roald de Vries 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 -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff