[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 8:16:37 AM UTC+12, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>
> On 6/13/2016 9:20 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
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>> When you do a 'git clone' you get a local copy of the full source tree,
>> including history; if your main server gets wiped out the full source
>> tree is available on x clients.
> 
> The full source tree, but not the meta data.
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4658451/can-a-local-git-clone-be-considered-a-complete-backup-of-the-repo-it-was-cloned

The only “meta data” I can see mentioned there is the remotes. While Git allows many kinds of workflows, I find it hard to imagine one where remotes on the  central server might be important. Remotes are something you set up in your personal copy of the repo, representing your own personal collaboration network for that project.

In other words, remotes are things you fetch from and push to. The server doesn’t normally do any fetching or pushing; it is the developers who fetch from/push to the server.

As as for backups, I would not rely on application-specific backup routines, I would simply use rsync to do a full file copy of the important parts of the server.