From: Simon Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:20:20 GMT Subject: Re: git as backup and file sync system Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hey thanks guys! This looks cool, I mean, I don't really care that it doesn't support everything topshape, I'm sure I can manage something with this. I'll clearly look into it. What I like most is that development on it is alive now. =) Simon On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 13:16, Simon wrote: >>>  I'm not sure if this post will be very welcome, but I'd like your >>> feedback or suggestions.  I've been reading Jon Loeliger's book about >>> git and I've understood many many things.  I'm interested in using git >>> as a backup and sync system between computers. >> >> You might want to look into 'bup', [0] designed specifically for that >> purpose. It seems like introduction post about it on apenwarr.ca is >> down though [1]. >> >> [0] http://github.com/apenwarr/bup >> [1] http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201001#04 > > Yeah, sorry, apenwarr.ca is flakey at the best of times.  It takes after me :) > > Disclaimer: bup does lots of neat backup-related stuff, but it doesn't > *yet* support detailed metadata.  We're working on it: > http://groups.google.com/group/bup-list/browse_thread/thread/e899a579a6f7ae55 > > If you're only storing a relatively small number of files (say /etc), > then something like etckeeper might do what you want.  Or more > generally, metastore (which etckeeper uses): > http://david.hardeman.nu/software.php > > Unfortunately neither git nor metastore can handle the high data > volumes that bup is aimed at (ie. your entire filesystem, including > huge files), which is why bup exists.  Give it a few weeks and we > should have some decent metadata handling in place though. > > Have fun, > > Avery >