GIT clone to external drive for backup
Please note that git itself is excellent at copying only the needed changes to a cloned repository.
If you want a copy of your repo to be regularly updated, do this: You create a bare repository as a backup repository, and then repeatedly push all new changes there (no need to delete the old backup).
Ok, let's start by creating your repo
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir myrepo && cd myrepo
$ touch hi && git add . && git commit -m "bla"
So, this is your repository. Now we create the clone:
$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir backup && cd backup
$ git --bare init
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/backup/
Now, let's set up your repo for regular backups …
$ cd /tmp/myrepo
$ git remote add backup /tmp/backup
$ git config remote.backup.mirror true
Then copy everything to the backup:
$ git push backup
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 206 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
To /tmp/backup
* °new branch§ master -> master
And see if it worked:
$ cd /tmp/backup
$ git log
commit d027b125166ff3a5be2d7f7416893a012f218f82
Author: Niko Schwarz <niko.schwarzàgmail.com>
Date: Fri Dec 11 12:24:03 2009 +0100
hi
Tada, you're set. Therefore, all your script needs to do is to issue git push backup
. There's exactly no need to repeatedly throw away the old backup.
The alternative is you can have rsync do it all for you:
rsync -av rsync://rsync.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/rsync /dest/dir/
User Offby adds: Since version 1.5.4, "git remote add" takes a "--mirror" option, which saves you both from having to "git config remote.origin.mirror true", and from having to pass --mirror to "git push".
Because git
command is little bit weird you have to use call
to execute any git commands from a batch file:
rmdir F:\GitClone /s /q
mkdir F:\GitClone
CD /D F:\GitClone\
call GIT CLONE c/GIT/Repo1/