GIT clone to external drive for backup

Question

We have GIT set up within our windows network (using msysgit & GitExtensions). We each have our own repositories and we push to a remote \'bare\' repository on one of o

Answer 1

Sorry, I can't comment posts, but I was thinking too about copying the .git, but what happens if the .git is copyed during a pull ?

Anyway, why copying the whole stuff as you could fetch the deltas from time to time ?

Initialization of backup : (in F:\GitClone\Repo1 empty)

git init
git add remote origin /c/GIT/Repo1

Then your "delta backup script" would just do :

cd /f/GitClone/Repo1
git fetch origin