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

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This stackoverflow question was a huge help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1887364/git-clone-to-external-drive-for-backup

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

$ mkdir O:/myrepo_backup
$ cd O:/myrepo_backup
$ git init --bare

Step 2: Add a remote to the repo you want to mirror

$ cd C:/myrepo
$ git remote add --mirror=push backup O:/myrepo_backup

Step 3: Push local repo to remote repo on network drive

$ cd C:/myrepo
$ git push remote

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.