Re: how to backup git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 12, 2008, 17:07 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805121804500.30431@racer>
In-Reply-To: <20080512152731.GM31039@zakalwe.fi>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Heikki Orsila wrote:

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> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:08:21PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > No, rsync is particularly dumb in that respect.  The safest thing 
> > would be to back up the reflogs first (e.g. with rsync), then repack 
> > and then clone (the clone will transmit the objects referenced by the 
> > reflogs, too).  Note: the same holds _not_ true for a simple fetch.
> > 
> > But then, you usually do not want to back up reflogs anyway, since 
> > they are purely local and not visible to anybody else.
> 
> Is there a simple and efficient mechanism for incremental backups?

Umm.  "git fetch"?

Like I said, it does not get the reflogs, but if you want to back up a repository, the safest is to clone once, and fetch later. Or you could set up a remote with the --mirror option, if you want to preserve the refs' namespaces.

Ciao, Dscho