Re: increment backup of home dir

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 02:07:53PM +0800, tim wade wrote:
>>> I plan to make increment backup for my home dir.
>>> It's currently in the size of 1xx GB.
>>
>> I use git.  I keep terminal open running a ssh connection open to the
>> backup system.  Whenever I wish to save the state of the system, I
>> switch to the terminal and execute git commit.  To check the previous
>> state of a file, Emacs provides git-timemachine.
>>
>> Simple and miminal hassle.
>>
> git fails to preserve ownership, permissions or timestamps. While this 
> may not be relevant to your usecase, for example backing up /etc would 
> be catastrophic (which is why we have etckeeper)

  yes, i just wrote another post about this flaw.


> For a homedir, ownership may not be a problem but permissions might be. 
> IIRC, for example, ssh (and sshd) will not work properly if the 
> permissions on ~/.ssh are wrong.
>
> git will also not backup (or even see) extended attributes.

  not without patching somehow.  :(


  songbird