# Git as a backup solution

1 messages from 2008-04-15 to 2008-04-15. Participants: Thomas Harning.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13129

## Thomas Harning, 2008-04-15 21:59

Subject: Git as a backup solution
Message-ID: <20080415175925.2810affa@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080415175925.2810affa%40gmail.com

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I've seen a few things out there that permits the use of Git as a
backup system...

The only one that seems to 'really' be able to store everything in a
Git repository is 'gibak', implemented in Ocaml...

Others seem to mostly fit the note, except for the fact that they
cannot store .git directories (kind of important for a 'generic' backup
solution)....  
It'd be interesting to see what a backup solution could
do WRT taking advantage of a given .git repository in packing even
better by doing something like taking a stash of the current state of
a git workspace + other files not being tracked by it for smaller
packs.........

Are there any others out there?

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