backing up repository

you have a myproject directory containing the .git repository, and would like to back up the repository contents

create the backup repo

cd /backup/destination
git init --bare myproject.git

do the initial push of your project to the backup repo

cd /myproject
git push --all --force /backup/destination/myproject.git

in your local git repo, make a copy of the .git/hooks/post-commit file and modify it similar to this

# assuming you have a mount point at /gitshare
echo -e "backing up repo...\n";
git push --all --force /backup/destination/myproject.git

you have a myproject directory containing the .git repository, and would like to back up the repository contents

clone your project as a “mirror”

cd /backup/destination
git clone --no-hardlinks --mirror /path/to/myproject backupfoldername

work, work, work

commit inside myproject

time to backup…go to the backup directory and “fetch” the project

cd /backup/destination/backupfoldername
git fetch

you have many projects that you want to backup, like to a usb drive

clone each project

cd /path/to/your/usb/drive/destfolder
git clone --mirror /project.git

create a shell script (i.e. pullall.sh) to loop through each project and fetch

#!/bin/sh

`which ls` -1d *.git | while read item;do
echo -e "updating ${item}...\n"
cd "${item}"
git fetch --all --force
cd ..
done

run the script with ./pullall.sh (make sure it is executable: chmod 755 pullall.sh)