Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud

Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by tomku on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @10:21AM (#4386057)

The project is based on git-annex, which is an extension that treats big binary files differently. Namely, it doesn't check in the file contents, so you don't get full-file versioning. You can find out more at http://git-annex.branchable.com/.

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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by rmc on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @11:10AM (#4386311)

Technically you can use the SHA backend to git-annex, so the actual file contents can be tracked by git, giving you "full file versioning". It's just not checked into git.

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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by rektide on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @05:13PM (#4388259)

Additionally there is a bup backend target for git-annex. Bup is targetted as a rsync-like backup service that can do incremental backups and ought work OK with large binary files. https://github.com/apenwarr/bup/

It was through Bup that I originally discovered git-annex.

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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by rjzzleep on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @10:23AM (#4386068)

hm ok, looks interesting, i'll have to read more about it's internals, thanks.

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