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Eric Frederich <eric.frederich <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Are any of you using git for a backup system?  Have any tips, words of wisdom?

I had the same idea to backup a MySQL database with git.

To be able to easily drop old "backups", I have choose to go with monthly 
branches: each month, the previous month's branch is checked out and a new 
branch is created; each year, the previous year is checked out...

This is running only for 5 weeks, but so far it works pretty well.