From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:51:13 GMT
Subject: Re: backups with git
Message-ID: <43d8ce650908100351w10e4d49cne8cff6f7e900f07a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <41CB836B-6057-448E-805F-F25EAF765D27@roalddevries.nl>

2009/8/10 Roald de Vries <rdv@roalddevries.nl>:
> 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