[clug] database backups with git

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On 08/06/12 11:46, Robert Edwards wrote:
> Anyone else use a VCS for maintaining snapshots of backup files/logs?
>
> What is the downside?

Most incremental backup tools have a way of deleting old increments 
(e.g. rdiff-backup has "--remove-older-than"). How would you do this if 
the target is git, where (as far as I know) the idea is to retain all 
history forever?

I've always thought of VCS as a way of storing mainly text written by 
humans, but then again there are projects like git-annex [1] so maybe 
things are changing.

-- 
Carlo Hamalainen
http://carlo-hamalainen.net


[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/