Tuesday, December 8. 2009Using git for Backup is Asking for PainTrackbacks
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Why yes, I do (although CSV would also make for a pretty crappy backup system…) Why do I care about preserving file ownership on my backups? I'm likely restoring them to a different system... Oh, interesting, you seem to be assuming system level backups instead of user-level Alright, so file permissions are less important for a user-level backup… But the other stuff - hardlinks, permissions, xattrs, etc - are still important. maybe a little bit. I don't use any hardlinks or xattrs normally, and permissions I usually reset after a restore anyway, since the user/group setup on the system is different Maybe you should make a series of scripts to give yourself a Mercurial interface to rsync can ignore empty dirs, too. They aren't all that useful to have a copy of. They are only useless until something needs them…
For example, I think Subversion gets very upset if |
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