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diff --git a/doc/walkthrough/backups.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough/backups.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9723022b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/walkthrough/backups.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +git-annex can be configured to require more than one copy of a file exists, +as a simple backup for your data. This is controlled by the "annex.numcopies" +setting, which defaults to 1 copy. Let's change that to require 2 copies, +and send a copy of every file to a USB drive. + + # echo "* annex.numcopies=2" >> .gitattributes + # git annex copy . --to usbdrive + +Now when we try to `git annex drop` a file, it will verify that it +knows of 2 other repositories that have a copy before removing its +content from the current repository. + +You can also vary the number of copies needed, depending on the file name. +So, if you want 3 copies of all your flac files, but only 1 copy of oggs: + + # echo "*.ogg annex.numcopies=1" >> .gitattributes + # echo "*.flac annex.numcopies=3" >> .gitattributes + +Or, you might want to make a directory for important stuff, and configure +it so anything put in there is backed up more thoroughly: + + # mkdir important_stuff + # echo "* annex.numcopies=3" > important_stuff/.gitattributes + +For more details about the numcopies setting, see [[copies]]. |