Backup via git - idiocy?

Question

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I’ll confess right away: I’m not a real sysadmin, I found a tambourine at a construction site.
But still, I had to help with the IT part of a small office, consisting of lawyers-financiers.
Our Internet is not very good, so we bought a local server (read - a regular PC) and happily use a network drive.
The disk stores mostly word/excel/power point/pdf files.
There is a task to back them up.
And by the nature of my main activity, I have long and dearly loved git.
I am currently in the process of setting up automatic daily commits of this disk of ours in amazon s3.
The question arose: is this normal to do at all? Or is it a bike on crutches?
So far I don't see any cons.
Thank you.

Answer 1

git annex is a decentralized versioning and backup system on top of git. Works great with binaries, supports backup on S3 out of the box. For binarikov and developed.

Answer 2

Theoretically it is possible, and it will work.
In fact - a bicycle made of crutches twisted with tape.

Answer 3

Git is a VCS, i.e. version control system. But not a backup tool.
Usually backup via rsync.

Answer 4

To do this, there are special tools Office Web Apps Server . Read git for office formats: it stores versions, provides co-editing, makes a backup itself, and you can also work through a browser if someone has a "normal" OS.

Answer 5

Instead of bare git bup , boar , git-annex, ... Bacula is better.

Answer 6

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/540535/managin...
https://opensource.com/life/16/8/how-manage-binary
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Answer 7

I would generally use the file history for a normal PC. I set it up once, an external screw to it, it’s better to have a second one next to it, which is connected and disconnected once a week, on the first the file history constantly saves the hourly difference, on the second weekly.

Answer 8

You will have performance issues if you save large files.
For example, it is described: blog.deveo.com/storing-large-binary-files-in-git-r...

Answer 9

If you use Git, then install GitLFS.