Re: [ANN] a daemon to continuously synchronize directory trees

[Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@...>]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 15:56, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:

> This looks extremely useful.

Thank you

> You could have a look at gibak. It's a git-based backup system that isfaster
> than rsync and that keeps the full history à la Time Machine (for UNIX only,
> requires OCaml for building).
> http://eigenclass.org/hiki/gibak-0.3.0
> http://eigenclass.org/hiki/gibak-backup-system-introduction

Will look at it. There's been some discussing about git based syncs,
it leaves yet some things open for decission. 

An important feature of gibak is that preserve the UNIX metadata (ownership, permissions, time,...). These are lost with stock git.

-- Pierre-Yves