Hello,
what is the best way to use git-annex as a backup tool to S3? As far as I know, even if all data is copied to S3, I need a checkout of the git repo, correct? And of course the private key used.
Is there a way to also save the repository data to S3? To have something like
git annex restore-from-external-remote ...If not, how do you organise the backup so that it is disaster proof? Upload the repo to some other external server regularly?
Thanks, Florian
You can use any git addon that allows git repositories to be pushed to S3 to store your git repository there, and then everything is on S3.
Or yes, you can push the git repository to any other git hosting provider you want to, to back it up.
Hi,
thanks for your reply. The repo server I used to store just the repository does not need to have git-annex installed, correct? As long as I do not intend to use it for exchanging files...
This message can be ignored?
Right, you've split the cloud storage into annex and git parts, so it's fine for the git part to not support annex then.