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git-annex can be configured to require that more than one copy of a file exists,
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as a simple backup for your data. This is controlled by the
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numcopies setting, which defaults to 1 copy. Let's
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change that to require 2 copies, and send a copy of every file
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to a USB drive.
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$ git annex numcopies 2
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$ git annex copy . --to usbdrive
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Now when we try to `git annex drop` a file, it will verify that it
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knows of 2 other repositories that have a copy before removing its
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content from the current repository.
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The numcopies setting used above is the global default.
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You can also vary the number of copies needed, depending on the file name.
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So, if you want 3 copies of all your flac files, but only 1 copy of oggs:
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$ echo "*.ogg annex.numcopies=1" >> .gitattributes
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$ echo "*.flac annex.numcopies=3" >> .gitattributes
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Or, you might want to make a directory for important stuff, and configure
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it so anything put in there is backed up more thoroughly:
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$ mkdir important_stuff
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$ echo "* annex.numcopies=3" > important_stuff/.gitattributes
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For more details about the numcopies setting, see [[copies]].
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