On Wed, Aug 09, 2023 at 05:27:57PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > On 8/9/2023 9:41 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > With the right DBMS and a little bit of setup, rsync is a perfectly fine > > way of backing up your databases [1]. Even with the wrong DBMS, all it > > takes is an SQL dump and backing up that (might be expensive with a > > couple o' 100M records, though). > > Subversion (a version control system) is really a DBMS and has its own dump > facility for backups. Each "record" is a version control generation. Now I'm > wondering what the equivalent is for git, which has largely supplanted > Subversion.
In git, every repo is a bunch of files. Always consistent at rest (meaning: when the running operation finishes, things are in the file system). Besides, it is very rsync-friendly, since things in .git/objects never change name. Cheers -- t
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