backing up repository

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do NOT use rsync
- git is smarter about what needs copied and will be faster
- a commit or other action could be in progress

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
```

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