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A friend uses git to store his pictures.

Well played.

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  • 0
    hmm interesting
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    Maybe not the best approach for big binary data, but why not.

    I use git with a little mount magic, a small script and an external hdd as my personal backup tool.
    All backup tools I found where big, complicated, need lots of configuration and you never know if you can trust in it's restore functions.

    Git is easy, i know how to handle it and I know how to restore anything if I need to. For my personal data that's the perfect solution with a minimum of effort and a maximum of reliabilty.
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    I also tried that once, mostly because of the convenient push and pull. But I stopped using it because the deleted pics where still using up a lot of space.
    I guess you have to do pre selection before checkin to make this usable.
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    "Open Source Images"
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    Interesting
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    @gnaaah Not deleting old stuff is the main task of a backup
  • 0
    makes for a good "yet-another-revision-control-system" project idea.
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    GIT for big binary data is a shitty idea.

    Aaaand that's why there is git annex or git lfs ;)
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    Rather than pictures, I really need some solutions for version control on PowerPoint, Word and Excel files
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    Well... I use 'bup' for storing large filed, it works damn pretty well!
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    $ cd /
    $ git init
    $ git remote add origin my_repo_url
    $ git add -A
    $ git commit -m "Commit entire HDD"
    $ git push -u origin master
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