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Perkeep – Personal storage system for life

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309 points nikolay | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 03:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | source
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lynx97 ◴[12 Nov 25 05:05 UTC] No.45896564[source]▶
At first glance, this looks like way too much to trust in the long run. I use git-annex since roughly 10 years to archive files I don't want to loose again. Does everything I want, and is pretty simple for what it gives me. A checksum for every file, replication on a file-basis, does not dictate the underlying filesystem I use. Full syncs are rather slow, but in reality, it doesn't really matter if I have to wait 3 hours or 2 days, just let it run in the background and do its thing.
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1. albertzeyer ◴[12 Nov 25 07:48 UTC] No.45897405[source]▶
I was looking for various options to archive my data (photos, documents, code), and have looked at Perkeep since a while, but then started using Git-Annex.

However, I regret this decision. Git-Annex is not usable anymore on my data because the amount of files has grown so much (millions) and Git-Annex is just too slow (it takes minutes up to even hours for some Git operation, and the FS is decently fast). I assume I would not have had those problems with Perkeep.