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diff --git a/doc/walkthrough/backups.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough/backups.mdwn index 9723022b4..b51a88794 100644 --- a/doc/walkthrough/backups.mdwn +++ b/doc/walkthrough/backups.mdwn @@ -1,15 +1,17 @@ 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. +as a simple backup for your data. This is controlled by the +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 numcopies 2 # 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. +The numcopies setting used above is the global default. 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: |