On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:08:21PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > No, rsync is particularly dumb in that respect. The safest thing would be > to back up the reflogs first (e.g. with rsync), then repack and then clone > (the clone will transmit the objects referenced by the reflogs, too). > Note: the same holds _not_ true for a simple fetch. > > But then, you usually do not want to back up reflogs anyway, since they > are purely local and not visible to anybody else. Is there a simple and efficient mechanism for incremental backups? It should be safe with respect to simultaneous repository access. Incrementals should be efficient weven when a user runs "git gc". Preferably I would like to have one file per day: myrepo.YYYY-MM-DD.increment (and occasionally myrepo.YYYY-MM-DD.full) I believe this is a common administration problem; something like "git-backup" script/tool would be nice so that not all the admins need consider these issues. Currently, I'm doing daily clones of repos, and I preserve those cloned directories. -- Heikki Orsila heikki.orsila@xxxxxx http://www.iki.fi/shd -- 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
