From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: git as a backup tool? Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:26 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 14 13:49:18 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 1HnZ3D-0000M5-7x for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:49:15 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1032189AbXENLsv (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 07:48:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1032198AbXENLsu (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 07:48:50 -0400 Received: from hoefnix.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.54]:41016 "EHLO hoefnix.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1032189AbXENLst (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 07:48:49 -0400 Received: from astra.telenet-ops.be (astra.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.58]) by hoefnix.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A670E9C2DD for ; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by astra.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 20AD3380E7; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from anakin.of.borg (d54C15D55.access.telenet.be [84.193.93.85]) by astra.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081D4380DD; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from anakin.of.borg (geert@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by anakin.of.borg (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l4EBmQU3022519 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:26 +0200 Received: from localhost (geert@localhost) by anakin.of.borg (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id l4EBmQT8022516; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:26 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: anakin.of.borg: geert owned process doing -bs Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Has anyone considered using git as a backup tool? I.e. - put your whole file system in git - do `git add .; git commit -a' from cron - copy .git to external media once in a while - clean up old stuff (unused and older than xx days) from .git Thanks! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds