From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:27:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Repository backups
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709191627040.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <31e9dd080709190814t6ef8b725w8a8320685e70578b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Jason Sewall wrote:

> I'd like to build a modest safety net for my various git repositories
> in case of catastrophic failure. Currently, everything is backed up on
> machines in the same building. I'm not expecting the Computer Science
> building to get hit by terrorists and we're in a seismically stable
> place, but there *is* construction nearby...
> 
> Anyway, my university offers a "mass storage" tape-based service that
> is supposedly very safe. We are encouraged to give them single big
> files for backups.
> 
> The temptation to just make bundles of all branch heads is great but
> probably not what I really want - things like reflogs don't get handed
> off with those, if I understand correctly.
> 
> Is there any argument against just making a tar of a bare clone of the
> repo?

If you make a bare clone, you lose reflogs, too.

So I would backup the complete .git/ directory instead.

Hth,
Dscho