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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Cc: GIT <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFD Use git for off-site backups
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 13:16:51 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705131251370.6410@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070513093417.GA18546@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

Hi,

On Sun, 13 May 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

> I am thinking about using git for doing differential backups of a whole
> machines. And I would like to know what is necessary to obtain that. In
> such a scenario the machine to be backed up should have a local index
> file but sends its objects directly to the remote machine via git-via-ssh
> or git protocol.

I think that this setup (have objects remotely) will kill performance 
pretty quickly. You have to compare to other blobs in order to find 
reasonable deltas...

> Is it possible to store extra information like extended attributes / 
> acls in git?

There has been talk about pre-commit scripts which put this information 
into a file, and a post-checkout script to resurrect these metadata, but I 
haven't seen functional versions of these scripts yet.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-13 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-13  9:34 RFD Use git for off-site backups Thomas Glanzmann
2007-05-13 11:16 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-05-13 11:18   ` Thomas Glanzmann
2007-05-13 12:34 ` Jan Hudec
2007-05-13 23:42   ` Shawn O. Pearce

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