On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 13:01:29 -0500 Eric Frederich <eric.frederich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I maintain a corporate MediaWiki installation. > Currently I have a cron job that runs daily and tar's up the contents > of the installation directory and runs a mysqldump. > I keep backups of the past 45 days. > Each backup is about 200M, so all in all I always have about 9.0G of > backups. Most of the changes are in the database, so the mysqldump > file is changed every day. > Other than that, there can be new files uploaded but they never > change, just get added. > All configuration files stay the same. [...] > Am I insane? Are there other tools more suited toward this? > I just thought of using Git since I looked at my 9G worth of data out > there in my backup directory that is almost exactly the same and said > "git could handle this well". > > Are any of you using git for a backup system? Have any tips, words > of wisdom? I suspect the rdiff-backup tool [1] was invented precisely for the setup like yours: it is able to sync one directory to another + create diffs between them thus providing for incremental backups. 1. http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html