https://github.com/navytux/git-backup

Backup set of Git repositories & just files; efficiently. (mirror of https://lab.nexedi.com/kirr/git-backup)
https://github.com/navytux/git-backup

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Backup set of Git repositories & just files; efficiently. (mirror of https://lab.nexedi.com/kirr/git-backup)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/navytux/git-backup
• Owner: navytux
• License: other
• Created: 2018-05-25T09:23:07.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-14T14:11:29.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-14T13:16:30.058Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: backup, git, gitlab
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 187 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
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 Git-backup - Backup set of Git repositories & just files; efficiently

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:author: Kirill Smelkov 

:date:   2015 Aug 31

This program backups files and set of bare Git repositories into one Git repository.

Files are copied to blobs and then added to tree under certain place, and for

Git repositories, all reachable objects are pulled in with maintaining index

which remembers reference -> sha1 for all pulled repositories.

This allows to leverage Git's good data deduplication ability, especially for

cases when there are many hosted repositories which are forks of each other,

and for backup to have history and be otherwise managed as a usual Git

repository.  In particular it is possible to use standard git pull/push to

synchronize backups in several places.

Backup workflow is:

1. create backup repository::

     $ mkdir backup

     $ cd backup

     $ git init         # both bare and non-bare possible

2. pull files and Git repositories into backup repository::

     $ git-backup pull dir1:prefix1 dir2:prefix2 ...

   This will pull bare Git repositories & just files from `dir1` into backup

   under `prefix1`, from `dir2` into backup prefix `prefix2`, etc...

3. restore files and Git repositories from backup::

     $ git-backup restore  prefix1:dir1

   Restore Git repositories & just files from backup `prefix1` into `dir1`,

   from backup `prefix2` into `dir2`, etc...

   Backup state to restore is taken from  which is sha1 or

   ref pointing to backup repository state.

4. backup repository itself can be managed with Git. In particular it can be

   synchronized between several places with standard git pull/push, be

   repacked, etc::

     $ git push ...

     $ git pull ...

Please see `git-backup.go`__ source with technical overview on how it works.

We also provide convenience program to pull/restore backup data for a GitLab

instance into/from git-backup managed repository. See `contrib/gitlab-backup`__

for details.

__ git-backup.go

__ contrib/gitlab-backup