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RE: git as a backup tool?

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RPRon Parker <ron.parker@mobot.org>
Date
May 14, 2007, 22:53 UTC
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> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Has anyone considered using git as a backup tool?  I.e.

At the very least you would have a lot of chgrp/chown work to do after a "restore". Git stores file mode, but not ownership information, ACL's or extended attributes.

I found this out when I tried using git to backup part of BOINC development server. Various files and directories had to have different ownership and extended attributes (for SELinux).

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Ron Parker
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