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22 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 4 stories, 18 comments · first 2010-04-01 · latest 2014-06-17

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  1. …database schema should look like (if not how to migrate/revert your data to match that schema). [1] https://github.com/apenwarr/bup [2] http://git-annex.branchable.com/ [3] http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/git-bigfiles
    comment by Smudge · 2014-06-17 · in VersionPress – Version Control Plugin for WordPress
  2. …you want bup which was made for snapshotting vm's without an all new copy being made each time: https://github.com/apenwarr/bup Disclaimer: Saw the guys presentation at a Git hacking session the other year and was very blown away by the…
    comment by icefox · 2012-11-13 · in A SSD in Your Pocket
  3. …parties can look into bup, for example, which stores large binary files in git's packfile format. https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
    comment by gcr · 2012-08-28 · in Show HN: A versioned filesystem inspired by Git
  4. …also git bup[2] and git-annex[3]. [1] http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/btrfs-snapshots.html [2] https://github.com/apenwarr/bup [3] http://git-annex.branchable.com/
    comment by justinmk · 2012-08-28 · in Show HN: A versioned filesystem inspired by Git
  5. …backup service that can do incremental backups and ought work OK with large binary files. https://github.com/apenwarr/bup/ It was through Bup that I originally discovered git-annex.
    comment by rektide · 2012-08-15 · in Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud
  6. rsync-ish: https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
    comment by zellyn · 2012-02-14 · in Rediscovering the Rsync Algorithm
  7. On the "git as a backup tool", the author missed a tool which looks quite interesting, called Bup ( https://github.com/apenwarr/bup ) which is based on git's toolchain. It is still immature but worth looking at.
    comment by Keithamus · 2012-02-09 · in Uses of git
  8. …solve some of the problems, spezally about large files. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_rOi2OVvwU https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
    comment by nickik · 2012-01-01 · in Open-source Dropbox alternative powered by Git
  9. …but splits big files into chuck to avoid this problem. Also does de-duplication at the chunk level. https://github.com/apenwarr/bup/#readme https://github.com/apenwarr/bup/blob/master/DESIGN#L92
    comment by SimonSapin · 2012-01-01 · in Open-source Dropbox alternative powered by Git
  10. have you seen: https://github.com/apenwarr/bup "file backup system based on the git packfile format. Capable of doing fast incremental backups of virtual machine images. "
    comment by naveen99 · 2011-11-02 · in Mercurial 2.0 has added largefiles extension (older r. are downloaded on demand)
  11. https://github.com/apenwarr/bup can help split a big image into many smaller pieces.
    comment by pclouds · 2011-10-04 · in Bitbucket now rocks Git
  12. Bup is also a pretty cool git based ddup backup utility: https://github.com/apenwarr/bup#readme
    comment by res0nat0r · 2011-08-27 · in Data Deduplication with Linux
  13. …files git-style with a different approach; the bup backup system using git comes to mind (see https://github.com/apenwarr/bup & http://lwn.net/Articles/380983/ ) where what is stored are chunks of files, where xdelta and other diffs work…
    comment by gwern · 2011-04-21 · in A personal Dropbox replacement based on Git
  14. apenwarr's own "bup" http://github.com/apenwarr/bup - it's the ultimate backup system on one hand, and it's just a git repository on the other. Way better deduplication than any other backup system you've used, every backup is at the same…
    comment by beagle3 · 2011-03-14 · in Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (2008)
  15. bup! bup! bup! https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
    comment by beagle3 · 2011-02-07 · in Using git to manage a website
  16. See https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
    comment by js2 · 2011-02-07 · in Using git to manage a website
  17. …could just use a Git's libraries from another programming language though. That's what Bup does: https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
    comment by dmoney · 2010-11-27 · in Enchilada Programming Language
  18. Also of interest and in a similar sort of spirit: Bup: Git based backups - https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
    comment by po · 2010-11-22 · in Git as a NoSQL datastore