Thank you for that, Andrew. I'm going to follow your advice and just set up a test repository, which won't be a disaster, if it gets damaged or erased.
I backup my /Users/john/Documents from my Mac to /home/john/Documents on the Linux server. Except for my mail directory, which comes from $HOME/Library/Mail and lives on $HOME/.mac.mail.backup on the server. 2014/1/22 Andrew Keller <and...@kellerfarm.com>: > On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:20 AM, John McIntyre <joh98....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> … >> >> So basically, what I'd like to do is this. I want to write code, >> write blg posts, write essays for university, whatever. And I want to >> use git to maintain revisions, but where do I store them? Do I make >> the Mac my hub? I have a git client on there. Do I make the server >> my 'hub'? If I make the server the 'hub', then won't rsync back-ups >> from the Mac to the server wipe them out? >> >> … > > Git's degree of flexibility in what is considered "the server" is valuable > here. I advise that you simply try a configuration, and see how it works. > It's easy to change where origin points later. > > With that said, like you, I have a small ad-hoc setup of automated rsync > backups between my various computers and servers, and I have found some > characteristics useful: > > * I have rsync saving backups into dedicated backup folders on the remote > machines. This eliminates ambiguity of what to back up (server A won't blow > away server B's Documents folder, for example). > > * Using a publicly accessible server has been useful. I set up port > forwarding to the machine, and set up a domain name pointing to the server. > In general, when I have Internet access, I can access the server that > contains my repositories. I always use the same domain name, even if I'm in > the same room as the server. > > Hope that helps, > Andrew > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
