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 not be relevant to your usecase, for example backing up /etc would > be catastrophic (which is why we have etckeeper)
yes, i just wrote another post about this flaw. > For a homedir, ownership may not be a problem but permissions might be. > IIRC, for example, ssh (and sshd) will not work properly if the > permissions on ~/.ssh are wrong. > > git will also not backup (or even see) extended attributes. not without patching somehow. :( songbird
