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Re: Incremental object transfer

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 12, 2010, 16:09 UTC
Message-ID
<20101112160933.GC15141@burratino>
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<20101112103427.GA29057@nibiru.local>
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
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> as already said some time ago, I'm using git to back up maildirs
> on a machine w/ relatively low ram. The biggest problem for now
> is the initial push (maybe later larger subsequent pushes could
> be also affected too): it takes quite a long time to get everything
> packed, and if the connection breaks (the box is sitting behind
> a dynamic-IP DSL link), everything has to be restarted :(
Maybe use "git bundle" and then transfer by rsync?
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