On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 07:50:27PM +0000, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 02:07:53PM +0800, tim wade wrote: > > > I plan to make increment backup for my home dir. > > > It's currently in the size of 1xx GB. > > > > I use git. I keep terminal open running a ssh connection open to the > > backup system. Whenever I wish to save the state of the system, I > > switch to the terminal and execute git commit. To check the previous > > state of a file, Emacs provides git-timemachine. > > > > Simple and miminal hassle. > > > git fails to preserve ownership, permissions or timestamps. While this may [...]
Half-wrong. Git doesn't preserve ownerships, but it does preserve permissions (the POSIX things). As for timestamps, it records the last commit timestamp, which may be a "good enough" approximation of the mtime or not. If you want more, have a look at etckeeper [1], which was made on top of git to address ownership et al. Cheers -- tomás
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