Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,11.Apr.09, 13:47:08, James Youngman wrote: > >> (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. >> the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a >> year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. > > etckeeper. Admittedly, it was created for /etc (it hooks into dpkg and > records all changes), but it should be usable also for /home. You could > also use git directly if you don't care about file permissions.
Probably overkill. It should work fine for text data, however, I don't think it would scale well for binary data. I'm not sure it would handle things like a changed exif comment gracefully. In my experience git becomes sluggish for large repositories of GBs worth of data and I have hundreds of GB of data. I use a custom rsync-script that keeps hard links of all unchanged files. Occasionally, I delete old backups and I think it's not straightforward to achieve that with git. Regards, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
