Question

Do you (and your team) back up your local checkouts of your DVCS (Git, Mercurial) repository between pushes? How do you do so? If your hard drive were to fail after writing a bunch of code that was not yet stable (therefore not yet pushed), how would you get it back?

Answer 1

I’m paranoid.

Besides our central repository (set up with git init --shared --bare), I have another mirror repository set up on a network drive:

cd /network/drive
git init --bare
cd /local/repo
git remote add backup --mirror /network/drive
git push backup

I just occasionally push to backup, and since it is a mirrored repository, it’s essentially just a full clone of my local repository.