On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:52:17AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Over the weekend, KDE came within a gnat's eyelash of losing *all* > their authoritative git repos, despite having seemingly-extensive > redundancy. Read about it here: > http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/too-perfect-a-mirror/ > > We should think about protecting our own repo a bit better, especially > after the recent unpleasantness with a bogus forced update. The idea > of having clones that are deliberately a day or two behind seems > attractive ...
I think the lesson here is that a mirror is not a backup. RAID, ZFS, and version control are all not backups. Taking a tarball of the entire repository and storing it on a different machine would solve just about any problem you can think of in this area. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does > not attach much importance to his own thoughts. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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