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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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backups with ubuntu server sharing via samba: lvm snapshots necessary?

I have a file server running on Ubuntu 8.04. I have a separate volume in LVM that I have mounted and shared via samba. I currently take a snapshot of the volume every 15 minutes, do a backup using rdiff-backup to another hard disk, then I release…
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rdiff-backup - can it work when installed locally only? Dreamhost backup

I'm attempting to backup files to Dreamhost's Backup account, which "allows users to perform only ftp, sftp, scp, cvs, rdist, and/or rsync operations" (source: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/RSSH). Is there any configuration that will let me use…
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rdiff-backup is taking longer and longer every time it runs

I've been running rdiff-backup for the past week or so, every night at 4am. It started out not taking that long, but it's taking longer and longer and longer every time it runs every night. In some cases there are quite a few new and changed files…
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rdiff-backup restoring directories without subdirectories

Is there a way to restore rdiff-backup generated backups but skipping subdirectories? Suppose I have backed up /dir, /dir/subA and /dir/subB and I'd like to restore only /dir and /dir/subB, skipping /dir/subA. I tried rdiff-backup -r now --exclude…
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rdiff-backup not working for files only changed by content

I have a file that gets changed only by content, the timestamp doesn't change. rdiff-backup on Windows is recognizing this file as changed when I use the --print-statistics option: Successful compare: rep_1/branches changed:…
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System boots to initrmafs prompt after rdiff-backup restore

I was making daily backups with rdiff-backup. system and data partitions separately. Now I restored the system from the backup, but it doens't boot. All I get is an (initramfs) prompt. I typed echo $REASON and it says there was no init file…
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rdiff-backup bug or error? Disk quota exceeded but that is not true

I want to make a backup with rdiff-backup. I have a backup VPS and I want to get the datas from remote host. Here it is my command what I used: rdiff-backup root@**RemoteIP**::/remotesourcefolder/ /targetlocalfolder/ After some seconds, they throw…
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How to make rdiff-backup bandwidth efficient?

I am using rdiff-backup to backup files from my server to a backup server. I run the backup using a command similar to: rdiff-backup user@example.com::/home/user/data/complete complete This backup is working well. However, from the features page of…
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What do do when rdiff backup memoryError happens?

After Upgrading from Ubuntu 13 to 14.04 LTS I get an error when trying to do an rdiff-backup from a 14.04 LTS machine with rdiff-backup 1.2.8 to a client with the same OS and rdiff-backup version. The error message is: Exception '' raised of class…
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rdiff-backup with sudo on remote host: ListError Permission denied

I'm currently facing the following problem: I set up rdiff-backup on a backup machine running Ubuntu and would like to be able to backup my production machine running CentOS; My setup looks as follows: backup user on both machines working ssh key…
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rdiff-backup script not working on this server, but does work on an other server

I have a rdiff-backup script that isn't really working on a specific server. The script I'm using, is for allmost all the servers the same and they all work fine, except for one server. The first time I ran the script with bash it went fine, it…
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, RDIFF-BACKUP, data source and destination on remote machines

i've got a problem with rdiff-backup... I have three systems: System-A: Data source, SSH on port 1234 System-B: Backupspace, SSH on port 22 System-C: Executive system which runs rdiff-backup. my rdiff-call is as…
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rdiff-backup -r is not working with QT

I am using rdiff-backup to get previous version of the files from server with this command: rdiff-backup --no-hard-links --force -r "DATE" "USERNAME@IP::SERVER PATH" "CLIENT PATH" I can do this with command prompt manually easily , but when i run…
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versioning files in ubuntu ( like versions in mac os)

I'm a little lost as to where to look regarding this, which is why I'm asking, there might be something obvious out there and I'm simply not hitting the right google keywords. Here's what I'm trying to go for: I have multiple users accessing and…
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rdiff-backup simultaneously

into my backup Linux server (Ubuntu) I have done a system to backup my three servers. Into etc/crontab I have write line like this: 0 0 * * * user rdiff-backup -v9 user@111.111.111.111::/var/www/ /mnt/server1/www 0 1 * * * user rdiff-backup -v9…
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