Hi, On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Jason Sewall wrote: > I'd like to build a modest safety net for my various git repositories > in case of catastrophic failure. Currently, everything is backed up on > machines in the same building. I'm not expecting the Computer Science > building to get hit by terrorists and we're in a seismically stable > place, but there *is* construction nearby... > > Anyway, my university offers a "mass storage" tape-based service that > is supposedly very safe. We are encouraged to give them single big > files for backups. > > The temptation to just make bundles of all branch heads is great but > probably not what I really want - things like reflogs don't get handed > off with those, if I understand correctly. > > Is there any argument against just making a tar of a bare clone of the > repo? If you make a bare clone, you lose reflogs, too. So I would backup the complete .git/ directory instead. Hth, Dscho - 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
