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Questions tagged [rdiff-backup]

a utility for creating reverse differential backups

rdiff-backup is a utility that allows a backup of a directory tree with a history of changes that can be retrieved. The user can retrieve the version of a file at certain points in the past. This is achieved by storing the current version and keeping a record of the changes in reverse (i.e. the difference between the current version and the previous version is stored so that the previous version can be re-created) The previous version may have a diff that can be used to go to the next previous version and so on.

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What is the best practice to backup OpenVZ containters?

I'm running Linux server with OpenVZ containers. I back up data with rdiff-backup in two steps (to minimalize downtime). First step is on live containter, and second step is on suspended container. Is there a better way to back up OpenVZ…
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Is there a way to replicate a very large file shares in real-time?

I have an hourly cron job that copies about 40GB of data from a source folder into a new folder with the hour appended on the end. When it's done, the job prunes anything older than 24 hours. This data changes very often during work hours and is on…
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list deleted files from rdiff-backup

How can I list deleted files and between which increments this happened? I wrote a clumsy and slow shell script but I think there must be a better way: #!/bin/bash -e # helper tool für rdiff-backup # see…
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Rdiff-backup directory way too bigger than real directory

I have a directory with 14G that I backup to my local server with rdiff-backup. I'm backing up for like three months now. I recently ran rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 8B /backup/directory to free some space. The problem is, when I run…
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How to use rdiff-backup with unicode file names?

I am using rdiff-backup to backup Windows Server 2012 to a Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi has a USB-attached 2TB NTFS drive. In general all works well: Except when rdiff-backup comes across folders with french accents (e.g è) in the name, in which point…
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rdiff-backup alternative or using rdiff-backup with rsync

I have a VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 with 2T storage where I'd like to put my data, which currently resides on a 1T flash drive. I'd like to be able to go back in history to retrieve older versions of files. I've looked at "duplicity" but read a lot…
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Restore multiple files with rdiff-backup

Has anyone written a script to restore multiple files/directories at once using rdiff-backup on windows? Single files work fine.
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Deploy rdiff-backup to ESXi server

Have someone succeeded to deploy rdiff-backup to ESXi platform? If yes, are there any instructions how to do that?
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Verify rdiff backup integrity

I am using rdiff for my differential backup. Recently an issue happened where all versions of my backup failed to patch correctly and rdiff returning an error 106 which after investigation is a code for a corrupt delta. Now I am pretty sure that the…
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Is there a good way to combine the incremental behavior of rdiff-backup with the inotify behavior of lsyncd?

I'm trying to backup a directory (my Zotero data, in particular) whenever it changes (a la syncing with drop box); I would also like to keep a history of backups in case I delete something and want to restore it. lsyncd solves the first of these;…
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Initial rdiff-backup on slow connection / large data (Could performing an rsync before help?)

I want to set up standard rdiff-backup to remote server. However the data is very big for the capacity of internet connection. Therefore I need some way to do the initial copy of data without rdiff-backup (as there is no way to resume initial…
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Upgrade a package

I have an Ubuntu 8.04 server and I wanted to install rdiff-backup I have done: apt-get install rdiff-backup But when I launched it return me a lot of error. i have seen in internet that the problem is the old version of rdiff-backup I have check…
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rsync & rdiff backup combination giving erros

On the server I'm making every day a backup with rdiff-backup like: rdiff-backup /home/ /backup/home Then every week I want to make a rsync backup offside with sshfs like: rsync -avz /home/server/backup/home /backup/server-home/ This is giving…
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Restore huge file from rdiff-backup with few space on / - why does rdiff-backup use so much space on /?

I try to restore a 5GB file from a backup: $ rdiff-backup -r 2012-01-26 /backup/path/to/file /restore/dir Exception '[Errno 28] No space left on device' raised of class '': Wenn I do so, I run out of space on /. I have…
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Which is the most reliable means of copying archives using binary deltas across Windows SMB shares?

I've been searching for the quickest way to copy some WAR and JAR files for huge software deployments between Windows systems. Clearly, multithreaded robocopy or any rsync protocol implementation will offer some increase in performance, but I'd like…
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