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Re: Git as a backup system?

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 8, 2010, 18:04 UTC
Message-ID
<20101108180427.GA4005@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<AANLkTikcBvN+5hkcc9+xt291B4Gm+Yhe53R3qY0PNt97@mail.gmail.com>
Eric Frederich wrote:
> Am I insane?  Are there other tools more suited toward this?
> I just thought of using Git since I looked at my 9G worth of data out
> there in my backup directory that is almost exactly the same and said
> "git could handle this well".
You might like bup: https://github.com/apenwarr/bup#readme
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  3. Konstantin KhomoutovNov 8, 2010
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