Stefan Monnier wrote: >> It'd probably be fairly easy to come up with a backup system based on Git >> (probably not good for whole-system backups, but likely workable for >> homedir backups), but I haven't come across such a thing yet. > > Well, for the reference I've now found `bup` which isn't using Git > directly but uses the storage format of Git.
i've found it useful, but i don't run it every day. i run it before i shut down for the days when i've actually made enough changes that i want to worry about backing up. i also do a backup with tar of selected directories once every few months just in case something happens. when i'm doing a new system from scratch i use a partition copy utility after each major step so i don't have to go back and reinstall from media and/or network if something doesn't quite go as i'd like. songbird
