From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: RFD Use git for off-site backups Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 13:16:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <20070513093417.GA18546@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: GIT To: Thomas Glanzmann X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 13 13:16:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HnC40-0003PG-Mj for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754561AbXEMLQ0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 07:16:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755628AbXEMLQ0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 07:16:26 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:44645 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754561AbXEMLQ0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 07:16:26 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 13 May 2007 11:16:24 -0000 Received: from R1e8f.r.pppool.de (EHLO noname) [89.54.30.143] by mail.gmx.net (mp050) with SMTP; 13 May 2007 13:16:24 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19uF5ZZBzduWzau2Rup1Po6Du0++dJ40zoBzSKzR+ swuDnO7rjP/vyl X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <20070513093417.GA18546@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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