rdiff-backup - Summary

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RDIFF-BACKUP CODE AND ISSUES HAVE BEEN MIGRATED TO GITHUB

• point your browser at https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup for source code, entering issues and (beta) release
• the users mailing list is still hosted on Savannah
• the project is currently being migrated to Python 3, beta release available above!

rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possible over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership (if it is running as root), modification times, acls, eas, resource forks, etc. Finally, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted.

Registration Date: Wed 25 Sep 2002 12:44:09 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 6 - Mature