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[[GIT]] [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Tracking_Moodle_CVS_with_git] is a distributed source code management system. For the purpose of this document, GIT's basic feature is that it allows to keep the whole history of a directory tree and track all changes. The basic idea of using GIT as a backup tool is that you can clone you moodledata directory on other disk and/or computer.

Create new file called .gitignore in the moodledata with the following content:

 cache
 lang
 localcache
 lock
 sessions
 temp
 trashdir

Transform your moodledata into the git repository:

 cd /srv/www/moodledata
 git init
 git add .
 git commit -m "Initial commit of moodledata"

Put following commands into the cronjob

 cd /srv/www/moodledata
 git add .
 git commit -a -m "AUTO: committed changes in moodledata"

Create a backup clone on local machine, e.g. on a separate disk

 cd /mnt/backup
 git clone --no-hardlinks --bare /srv/www/moodledata/.git datamoodle.git

Push changes into a bare clone

 cd /srv/www/moodledata
 git push /mnt/backup/datamoodle.git

Or, pull changes from the clone (here created on a separate machine)

 git --bare fetch ssh://your.moodle.serv.er/backup/datamoodle.git master:master

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