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By: Automated backup using D-Link DNS-321 review and HOWTO « Coert Vonk

Automated backup using D-Link DNS-321 review and HOWTO « Coert Vonk — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:41:45 +0000

[...] root, install the tool and its dependencies on the backup server (details at here, here and here) mkdir /mnt/HD_a2/src/rdiff-backup cd [...]

By: lucidsystems

lucidsystems — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:44:00 +0000

Great introduction to using rdiff-backup.

You may also be interested in LBackup : http://www.lbackup.org.

By: HowtoMatrix » Powerful Remote Incremental Backup with rdiff-backup

HowtoMatrix » Powerful Remote Incremental Backup with rdiff-backup — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:08:20 +0000

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queleimporta.com » Blog Archive » Incremental Backup with rdiff-backup — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:07:22 +0000

[...] Posted on August 25th, 2009 by acuervo. Filed under Uncategorized. rdiff-backup tries to “combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup”. It’s a command line utility that not only gives you a plain mirror of your files, but also allows you to retrieve previous versions of your files using the extra difference data it keeps. This means you can quickly copy and paste to restore a file from your most recent backup, or retrieve the contents of files as they were at the time of any previous backup. rdiff-backup has built in support for network backups over SSH and is network-efficient and fast thanks to its incremental nature. It’s also possible to run rdiff-backup on Windows, soon I’ll be investigating whether it will work as a backup solution for the Windows systems on my network. via tombuntu.com [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:13:18 +0000

A few months ago, I waded through all of the above rsync options and ended up using rsnapshot. I don’t know that it is necessarily better than any other rsync option, but I find that it is simple and works great! Before that I needed to do a simple network backup from a windows machine to linux server and I found that Delta copy worked well.

Now that I need to backup from linux to linux, the rsnapshot does the trick!

By: kyio

kyio — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:34:15 +0000

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
i find backuppc quite usefull because you install it on your backup machine. this pc will connect to each system to backup data. so your desktop does not have high resource usage

By: Mosh

Mosh — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:12:57 +0000

I picked rdiff-backup for an office system I was setting up 2 years ago and it’s worked a treat ever since. The only downside is that file restoration isn’t a simple “drag/drop” or copy and there’s nobody on site there to recover things if it all goes wrong.

However, that’s why they pay me a retainer and I have remote access to the system

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:40:24 +0000

Thanks, I’ll have to try rsnapshot as well.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:51:23 +0000

I found that rsnapshot (http://rsnapshot.org/) an excellent backup program and does something very similiar to rdiff-backup.

I’ve been running rsnapshot now across about a dozen machines for over a year — and it’s saved my bacon a number of times!

A comparison of both you can read at:
http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2008/02/backup-on-linux-rsnapshot-vs-rdiff/

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:16:03 +0000

I totally with that–a mirror is much easier to work with, provided you have diff increments. But that requires rdiff-backup on both the source and the destination, which is a luxury some of us have, and others don’t. The advantage of Duplicity is that it can do the math without a version of itself running on another machine.