Re: how to backup git

From: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
Date: May 12, 2008, 18:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20080512183615.GO31039@zakalwe.fi>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805121920120.30431@racer>

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:21:02PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Heikki, why don't you just go with the "git fetch" approach I described?  
> We do not need "git backup" when "git fetch" does already what you want.

I need efficient (small) daily increment files. What I could do is something like:

1. rm -rf yesterday ; mv today yesterday

2. git clone yesterday today

3. cd today && git fetch /path/to/repo

4. create an increment file (from yesterday to today) or a full

The above should just be something like (why not make this easy?):

1. git backup /path/to/repo /backup/location/

And restoration should be something like:

1. git backup --restore /backup/location/foo /path/to/repo

Am I missing something?

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Heikki Orsila
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