From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Subject: Re: git as backup and file sync system Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 17:20:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: turner25@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Sverre Rabbelier , git@vger.kernel.org To: Avery Pennarun X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 02 23:20:29 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NxoI0-0002P1-W4 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:20:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754705Ab0DBVUY convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2010 17:20:24 -0400 Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:51436 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754546Ab0DBVUX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2010 17:20:23 -0400 Received: by gwb19 with SMTP id 19so348398gwb.19 for ; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:20:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=oe3Rd/b/PwYWOI96/HqDACg5kr2fzZYGrXCjIhJrFE4=; b=kc39n8DUTPl91+HsG1DdrsVT72evVJ5UZV02NuEStFrAjZ7OVaqx9mdvXf+o9C6kEc 4LoeBSc7YgTYy/m/RZ9VnSWlLNTWq8vQI0RSsmOa8L0am3AtXav/TdjVIrlMDklZpDPu 4ahtlbMghF6z8SeQLuNNtsBhZn1Cr17A7s0F0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HFMNf3asZJaTMhEnKszhYvt2GUxwNv2xbqqx/Lgv+1EnefgHasNj7DGbXmXcz5CK+s JkssAv5SOaXBdIrrfKJJd9fx7cDuRtooTha7Yfx1IzB3MyjiptddQRC3eLT97jKgEbzl gZkOCDekodIORUKtslEXvZYKUlFiZ3sHM50cM= Received: by 10.100.143.5 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:20:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Received: by 10.101.152.13 with SMTP id e13mr7046466ano.0.1270243220802; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:20:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hey thanks guys! This looks cool, I mean, I don't really care that it doesn't support everything topshape, I'm sure I can manage something with this. I'll clearly look into it. What I like most is that development on it is alive now. =3D) Simon On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Avery Pennarun wro= te: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 13:16, Simon wrote: >>> =A0I'm not sure if this post will be very welcome, but I'd like you= r >>> feedback or suggestions. =A0I've been reading Jon Loeliger's book a= bout >>> git and I've understood many many things. =A0I'm interested in usin= g git >>> as a backup and sync system between computers. >> >> You might want to look into 'bup', [0] designed specifically for tha= t >> purpose. It seems like introduction post about it on apenwarr.ca is >> down though [1]. >> >> [0] http://github.com/apenwarr/bup >> [1] http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=3D201001#04 > > Yeah, sorry, apenwarr.ca is flakey at the best of times. =A0It takes = after me :) > > Disclaimer: bup does lots of neat backup-related stuff, but it doesn'= t > *yet* support detailed metadata. =A0We're working on it: > http://groups.google.com/group/bup-list/browse_thread/thread/e899a579= a6f7ae55 > > If you're only storing a relatively small number of files (say /etc), > then something like etckeeper might do what you want. =A0Or more > generally, metastore (which etckeeper uses): > http://david.hardeman.nu/software.php > > Unfortunately neither git nor metastore can handle the high data > volumes that bup is aimed at (ie. your entire filesystem, including > huge files), which is why bup exists. =A0Give it a few weeks and we > should have some decent metadata handling in place though. > > Have fun, > > Avery >