On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:08:21PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> 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.

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Heikki Orsila
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