Re: RFD Use git for off-site backups

Hi,

On Sun, 13 May 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

I am thinking about using git for doing differential backups of a whole
machines. And I would like to know what is necessary to obtain that. In
such a scenario the machine to be backed up should have a local index
file but sends its objects directly to the remote machine via git-via-ssh
or git protocol.

I think that this setup (have objects remotely) will kill performance 
pretty quickly. You have to compare to other blobs in order to find 
reasonable deltas...

Is it possible to store extra information like extended attributes / 
acls in git?

There has been talk about pre-commit scripts which put this information 
into a file, and a post-checkout script to resurrect these metadata, but I 
haven't seen functional versions of these scripts yet.

Ciao,
Dscho