From fe70663bb4ec68d28ed710fbe25fd76dc5639f2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: andrew Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 15:25:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment: checkout borg remote --- ...comment_1_bf48d93872bfadb5daaf02a10e699b79._comment | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Backup_of_whole_Linux_system/comment_1_bf48d93872bfadb5daaf02a10e699b79._comment diff --git a/doc/forum/Backup_of_whole_Linux_system/comment_1_bf48d93872bfadb5daaf02a10e699b79._comment b/doc/forum/Backup_of_whole_Linux_system/comment_1_bf48d93872bfadb5daaf02a10e699b79._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..908599abd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Backup_of_whole_Linux_system/comment_1_bf48d93872bfadb5daaf02a10e699b79._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="andrew" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/acc0ece1eedf07dd9631e7d7d343c435" + subject="checkout borg remote" + date="2021-01-09T15:25:05Z" + content=""" +git and git-annex do not store a lot of filesystem metadata. [git-annex metadata](https://git-annex.branchable.com/metadata/) actually stores metadata attached to the file key, which means the metadata is attached to the file content not the file path. Filesystems attach metadata to the file location (within a file tree), so if you have two files with the same content but different permissions in different folders you couldn't represent that information using git-annex metadata. + +You might checkout using the `git-annex` [borg special remote](https://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/borg/). You could backup your whole linux system to a borg repository (using standard borg commands). Then you can add that borg repo as a git-annex borg special remote so you could access the files from a git-annex perspective. +"""]] -- 2.30.2