Add a remote mirror on a network drive from a local Git repository (*nix)

git-remote-mirror

If you use Git on you development machine, it's good to keep a remote backup in case your dev machine fails.

Step 1: Create the empty bare repo on your network drive(backup folder).
so you first have to clone it: in the original repo do:

$ git clone --bare /path/of/the/exsisting/repo

This will copy your repository data to the network folder.

Step 2: In the version controlled folder, add a new remote.  

$ git remote add --mirror=push backup /path/of/the/backup/folder/

Step 3: Push local repo to remote repo on network drive from the working folder

$ git push backup

Now you should have a remote mirror of you local repo!

Every time you want to push changes to your mirror, just repeat Step 3.