On 15/3/25 17:22, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
Moreover, storing Git repositories on the same storage device as your
original files only safeguards your data against your own mistakes. This
is analogous to the (opposite) misconception that RAID systems serve as
a backup solution; they only protect against hardware failures of one or
more disks, and happily mirror all your mistakes for you. Proper backup
system need to protect your data from most (ideally all) data loss
scenarios.
Fortunately, with Git, setting up remote copies on another disk or
machine is straightforward, so it is an excellent backup tool for data
sets that are well suited to version control, such as your writing
projects.
I personally use git as my primary backup mechanism in a variety of ways.
- github - free but not completely private
- AWS - free but likely private
- My own server Gitea - private but needing an off-prem host for best
practice
git can handle large file sizes but best not, so backing up /etc and
selected parts of /usr/local and /var is fine
git for /home/<user> is probably not a good idea but git for say
/home/<user>/Documents is usually O.K.
