Re: [HACKERS] Interesting post-mortem on a near disaster with git

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Jim Nasby wrote: >> > What about rdiff-backup? I've set it up for personal use years ago >> >> > (via the handy open source bash script backupninja) years ago and it >> >> > has a pretty nice no-frills point-in-time, self-expiring, file-based >> >> > automatic b

Re: [HACKERS] Interesting post-mortem on a near disaster with git

On 3/26/13 6:42 AM, Cédric Villemain wrote: Le lundi 25 mars 2013 19:35:12, Daniel Farina a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner > > wrote: > >> Back when we used CVS for quite a few years I kept 7 day rolling > >> snapshots of the CVS repo, against just suc

Re: [HACKERS] Interesting post-mortem on a near disaster with git

Le lundi 25 mars 2013 19:35:12, Daniel Farina a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner > > wrote: > >> Back when we used CVS for quite a few years I kept 7 day rolling > >> snapshots of the CVS repo, against just such a difficulty as this. But > >> we seem to be much bet

Re: [HACKERS] Interesting post-mortem on a near disaster with git

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: >> Back when we used CVS for quite a few years I kept 7 day rolling >> snapshots of the CVS repo, against just such a difficulty as this. But >> we seem to be much better organized with infrastructure these days so I >> haven't done tha

Re: [HACKERS] Interesting post-mortem on a near disaster with git

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: > On 03/24/2013 11:22 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> >> On 03/24/2013 06:06 PM, Michael Paquier wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Tom Lane >> > wrote: >>> >>> Over the weekend, KDE came within a gn

Re: [HACKERS] Interesting post-mortem on a near disaster with git

On 03/24/2013 11:22 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > On 03/24/2013 06:06 PM, Michael Paquier wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Tom Lane > > wrote: >> >> Over the weekend, KDE came within a gnat's eyelash of losing *all* >> their authoritative git repos, de

Re: [HACKERS] Interesting post-mortem on a near disaster with git

On 03/24/2013 06:06 PM, Michael Paquier wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Tom Lane > wrote: Over the weekend, KDE came within a gnat's eyelash of losing *all* their authoritative git repos, despite having seemingly-extensive redundancy. Read about

Re: [HACKERS] Interesting post-mortem on a near disaster with git

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Over the weekend, KDE came within a gnat's eyelash of losing *all* > their authoritative git repos, despite having seemingly-extensive > redundancy. Read about it here: > http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/too-perfect-a-mirror/ > It is really great

Re: [HACKERS] Interesting post-mortem on a near disaster with git

On 03/24/2013 05:08 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:52:17AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Over the weekend, KDE came within a gnat's eyelash of losing *all* >> their authoritative git repos, despite having seemingly-extensive >> redundancy. Read about it here: >> http://

Re: [HACKERS] Interesting post-mortem on a near disaster with git

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:52:17AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Over the weekend, KDE came within a gnat's eyelash of losing *all* > their authoritative git repos, despite having seemingly-extensive > redundancy. Read about it here: > http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/too-perfect-a-mirror/ > > We should

[HACKERS] Interesting post-mortem on a near disaster with git

Over the weekend, KDE came within a gnat's eyelash of losing *all* their authoritative git repos, despite having seemingly-extensive redundancy. Read about it here: http://jefferai.org/2013/03/24/too-perfect-a-mirror/ We should think about protecting our own repo a bit better, especially after th