From 1c9cab56aef888ac598ee8261cf47409dc3954aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmUJBh1lYmvfCCiGr3yrdx-QhuLCSRnU5c" Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 02:22:27 +0000 Subject: --- doc/bugs/True_backup_support.mdwn | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/True_backup_support.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/True_backup_support.mdwn b/doc/bugs/True_backup_support.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ebf69c617 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/True_backup_support.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +I'd like to be able to restore my data from S3/Glacier following a catastrophic loss of information. + +As I understand it, git-annex doesn't solve this problem for me because it only stores file *contents* in S3/Glacier. A restore-from-nothing requires both the file contents and also the file names and metadata, which git-annex doesn't store in S3. + +I'm still feeling my way around git-annex, but I think it will probably be sufficient for my purposes to set up a cron job to push my annex to github. But I think it would be helpful if git-annex could take care of this automatically. -- cgit v1.2.3