From: Patrick Rouleau <pfrouleau@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:17:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Git as a backup system?
Message-ID: <loom.20101109T010709-599@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikcBvN+5hkcc9+xt291B4Gm+Yhe53R3qY0PNt97@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Frederich <eric.frederich <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Are any of you using git for a backup system?  Have any tips, words of wisdom?

I had the same idea to backup a MySQL database with git.

To be able to easily drop old "backups", I have choose to go with monthly 
branches: each month, the previous month's branch is checked out and a new 
branch is created; each year, the previous year is checked out...

This is running only for 5 weeks, but so far it works pretty well.