From: Ron Parker Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 22:53:15 GMT Subject: RE: git as a backup tool? Message-ID: <769697AE3E25EF4FBC0763CD91AB1B0201D496EA@MBGMail01.mobot.org> In-Reply-To: > 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). -- Ron Parker