[Discuss] CrashPlan Home is discontinued - what's next?

Mike Small smallm at sdf.org
Thu Aug 31 12:50:15 EDT 2017


worley at alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) writes:

> I have a cron job which commits my home directory into a Git repository
> every minute.  Surprisingly, this puts no noticeable load on the
> computer.

How do you handle file permissions? E.g. .ssh directory contents or PGP
key files having restricted permissions and a git checkout pulling them
out of the repository with more lax default permissions based on your
umask (at least I think that's what it does). IIRC Joey Hess wrote some
kind of tool to use git to track /etc changes and had to add something
on top to deal with permissions and file ownership. I'd think you'd need
to do something similar.

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Mike Small
smallm at sdf.org



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