From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 11:16:51 GMT Subject: Re: RFD Use git for off-site backups Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070513093417.GA18546@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Hi, On Sun, 13 May 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > 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