Git isn't quite a backup

Christopher Browne cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sun Mar 24 16:20:54 UTC 2013


People periodically murmur "RAID isn't a backup".

It turns out that git isn't, either, necessarily.  KDE had a near
disastrous blowup of 1500 repos.

http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/too-perfect-a-mirror/

It points at the minutia that a git mirror is pretty vulnerable to anything
that might break on its parent.  But it looks like one should watch more
carefully, broadly.
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