On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 23:16, Andrey Utkin
<andrey.krieger.ut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all! Long live the gentoo masters!
> I'd like to hear from anybody who uses (or tried) git on production
> servers for saving the points of possible restore. Please, share your
> practices, like commit patterns, .gitignore contents, etc. I've begun
> to use it a couple of days ago for that, and pointed out some issues.
> I control the whole root fs with git.
> The problematic part is bunch of files that update frequently, but i
> am not familiar with them and i'm not sure if system will load without
> them.
> Namely, these are files in /usr/lib64/portage/pym/
> Also wtmp, utmp files hurt - likely without them box won't boot, but
> they shouldn't be in git control, too, coz they update often.
> Thus, backup restoring requires not git repo only, but also some tar of base?
>
> --
> Andrey Utkin
There is an interesting project targeting exactly this: using Git
as a backend for a backup tool:
https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
Ciprian.
P.S.: I haven't tried it myself, but I've subscribed to their
mailing list and I keep a close eye... And when I have some time I
want to try it...
