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
next prev parent 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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