Bug#261578: O: rdiff-backup -- Backup program to use deltas for history
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I intend to orphan the rdiff-backup package.
The package description is:
rdiff-backup is a script that backs up one directory to another. 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, symlinks, special files, permissions, uid/gid ownership (if
it is running as root), and modification times. 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.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US
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