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Page is down, but my answer to the title is that I don't (always) use github because it's really, really easy to set up a private repo on the Debian VPS I'm ren
by Joeboy 11y ago
Page is down, but my answer to the title is that I don't (always) use github because it's really, really easy to set up a private repo on the Debian VPS I'm renting anyway.
Edit: For those who don't know:
On the server:
mkdir ~/whatever.git
cd ~/whatever.git
git init --bare
On your local machine:
git clone me@myserver.com:~/whatever.git
That's it. Admittedly you are now responsible for backups, but hopefully you back up your server anyway. And of course you don't get the snazzy web interface but I don't imagine most of us use that much anyway.
- tajen 11y agoSorry, is there an easy way to backup a server (e.g. Debian)? Do you use the provider's "backup your instance" feature? How can you be confident that they'll never close your account and lose ypur backups, for example based on an assumption that something you're doing isn't legit?
- Joeboy 11y agoI use http://duplicity.nongnu.org http://duplicity.nongnu.org to back up my data (not the whole server). I don't know if it's necessarily the best thing these days, but it works OK. I think the risk of losing my VPS, my working copy and my backups at the same time is acceptably low, given that the world would not end if my git repos disappeared anyway.