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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Backing git repos to tape?
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:05:08 +0100
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[Cc: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>, git@vger.kernel.org]

Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

> Is there a preferred way to do the above?
> 
> To do a full backup I could just copy the whole repo, but how
> do I do inrecmental backups(and restore)?

Try git-bundle. There were in the mailing list archive the recipe
on how to do an "incremental" bundle...

...ahh, there it is, by Johannes "Dscho" Schindelin:

        git bundle create retort.bundle --all \
                --not $(git ls-remote the-other.bundle | cut -c1-40)

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