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Re: backups with git

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John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 10, 2009, 10:51 UTC
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2009/8/10 Roald de Vries <rdv@roalddevries.nl>:
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> Dear all,
>
> I'm thinking of using git as a backup solution for my whole system, setting
> my $GIT_DIR to something like "/backupdisc/backup". Does that seem sensible?
> In his Google tech talk, Linus said that git was not good at huge projects;
> I guess that would apply to backups. On the other hand, maybe a backup
> doesn't need to be as fast as he wants git to be for projects. Has anybody
> used git like this? And was it a good experience?
Perhaps you want something more like btrfs.
John
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