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Re: Backing git repos to tape?

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 25, 2007, 11:05 UTC
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[Cc: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>, git@vger.kernel.org]
Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Is there a preferred way to do the above?
> 
> To do a full backup I could just copy the whole repo, but how
> do I do inrecmental backups(and restore)?

Try git-bundle. There were in the mailing list archive the recipe on how to do an "incremental" bundle...

...ahh, there it is, by Johannes "Dscho" Schindelin:
        git bundle create retort.bundle --all \
                --not $(git ls-remote the-other.bundle | cut -c1-40)
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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