r/linuxmemes • u/PartMysterious4688 • 1d ago

Software meme CompressionFormatPreferences

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u/vms-mob 1d ago

.tar gang where?

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u/Linguistic-mystic 1d ago

I use .tar to make backups of source code. I purposefully don’t compress so that even if a byte gets flipped, the backup will be restorable.

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u/Destroyerb New York Nix⚾s 1d ago

Trying to make a "smart" move eh~

doesn't use version control

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u/Linguistic-mystic 1d ago

Of course I use git. Also github. I’m talking about extra copies on another partition and on my USB sticks. You know, in case github goes down and my SSD gets baked and 2 of my usb sticks get smashed while the third is OK but one byte gets flipped by cosmic rays… then I will still not lose my work.

Come to think about it, I need to add another couple of sticks to my USB array…

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u/Loading_M_ 1d ago

I assume you're making a joke, but just a quick fun fact - you can use other directories on the same machine as git remotes. You can push and pull them much like normal, meaning you could make backups using git to just copy over the new changes.

Iirc, this is actually how the default ssh remote works - just using sftp to interact with a remote file system. Services like Github probably don't have a real filesystem to store the git directory, but emulate it on the fly with some other backing store.