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Re: RFD Use git for off-site backups

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
May 13, 2007, 11:16 UTC
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Hi,
On Sun, 13 May 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
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> I am thinking about using git for doing differential backups of a whole
> machines. And I would like to know what is necessary to obtain that. In
> such a scenario the machine to be backed up should have a local index
> file but sends its objects directly to the remote machine via git-via-ssh
> or git protocol.

I think that this setup (have objects remotely) will kill performance pretty quickly. You have to compare to other blobs in order to find reasonable deltas...

> Is it possible to store extra information like extended attributes / 
> acls in git?

There has been talk about pre-commit scripts which put this information into a file, and a post-checkout script to resurrect these metadata, but I haven't seen functional versions of these scripts yet.

Ciao, Dscho

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  4. Jan HudecMay 13, 2007
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