I often backup my laptop to an external hard drive. Is rsyncing git repos over good enough backup solution or are there any problems with this method?
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I often backup my laptop to an external hard drive. Is rsyncing git repos over good enough backup solution or are there any problems with this method?
rsyncis a good solution for this. It may be a good idea to rungit gcandgit repack(neither with any arguments) before doing your backup; this may significantly reduce the number of files, and increase the chance of the data not changing too much by next time. Neither will lose any data.See Git Best Practices (by Seth Robertson) for a write-up of why doing this with git isn’t such a good solution.