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What about using git to backup an entire hard drive? Maybe using bitbucket (or github if you don't mind sharing your data with the world). Living on the cloud

What about using git to backup an entire hard drive? Maybe using bitbucket (or github if you don't mind sharing your data with the world). Living on the cloud has never been so easy :-D

SeoxyS 16y ago
Performance would be nightmarish. Git is super elegant and great, but not very performant. Imagine having to deltify a terabyte of data? Good luck with that!
- riledhel 16y ago
  wasn't it because he needed better performance one of the reasons Torvalds created git? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
  - beoba 16y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitkeeper#Pricing_change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitkeeper#Pricing_change
  - rmc 16y ago
    Although git usually has faster performance than most other VCS, that doesn't mean it can easily handle terabyte disk image files. :P
beoba 16y ago
You should look at something more along the lines of rdiff-backup (or whatever's fashionable these days) for that. Using git would be pretty pointless, unless you're going to be frequently branching and merging against your mp3s or something.
js2 16y ago
See https://github.com/apenwarr/bup https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
beagle3 16y ago
bup! bup! bup! https://github.com/apenwarr/bup https://github.com/apenwarr/bup