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Backup tool for performing full and incremental backups.

rdiff-backup combines the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. It backup source directories to target directories over a network, additionally keeping reverse diffs in a special subdirectory of the target directory. This allows for the latest version of a particular file to be recoverable as well as prior versions of the same file.

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iconv module (to use with rsync) to avoid windows-illegal filenames in local NTFS partition

I would like to locally attach an NTFS volume to my unix (Ubuntu) machine, and copy (replicate) some unix directories to it, using rsync, in a way that the result is readable under Windows. I do not care about ownership and permissions. It would be…
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Incremental system backup and restore w/ rsync or rdiff-backup issues

I've been reading about using rsync and rdiff-backup to make incremental backups of my entire Linux system. I am planning to practise that by setting up a Linux system, making some changes to it, erasing everything and restoring the system (all with…
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How are XFS deltas for xfsdump -l n calculated?

I have a xfs filesystem with many small and a couple very large files (~100GB), its on a lvm2 volume. I want to do incremental backups from it. Is there any computational overhead when using a tool like for example duplicity/rdiff versus xfsdump for…
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--remote-schema option for rdiff-backup

I'm running the following command: rdiff-backup --remote-schema '%s' 'sudo /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --server \ --restrict-read-only /'::/etc /var/backups/hosts/derp It's backing up /etc from localhost and putting it in /var/backups/hosts/derp just…
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Is there a FUSE which permits transparently accessing incremental backups?

While creating incremental backups is relatively simple (and can be automated, e.g. via rdiff-backup), in order to access a specific state of a file one first has to manually restore the backup, which is both not-simple and tedious if you need to…
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rdiff-backup needs too much space to recover from failure of previous backup?

I have quite a lot of free space (and inodes) on this filesystem, but rdiff-backup apparently runs out of space. And hence my backups are not working at the moment :-(. Why? (I wonder how much space I should be reserving for this in future!) My…
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Checking destination directory after "No space left on device" error

My latest backup attempt with rdiff-backup failed due to "[Errno 28] No space left on device". And it's true, according to du there are 0 bytes available on the backup device. When I now try to revert the directory to the state before the…
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Wildcards in exclude-filelist for duplicity

I am trying to exclude a "bulk" folder in each home directory from the backup. For this purpose, I have a line - /data/home/*/bulk in my exclude-filelist file. However, this doesn't seem to be recognised: Warning: file specification…
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Backup using rsnapshot not working

I have a server web based Linux and i want to make backup every hour using rsnapshot. this is my rsnapshot file configuration : config_version 1.2 snapshot_root /var/Majjane-Save/ cmd_cp /bin/cp cmd_rm /bin/rm cmd_rsync …
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Software to do a 3 way backup

I am currently doing a backup of my system on an external hard disk using rdiff-backup. This kind of backup is good when the disk dies. However, I was also wondering if I can extend this method to do a 3 way backup? For example, instead of just…
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How to free space taken by rdiff-backup data?

I use rdiff-backup for my backups. My disk runs out of space. I would like to clean some rdiff-backup data by removing either: the backup data of small files with a large number of different versions the backup data of very large files which have…
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changing a file in a backup from rdiff-backup

I use rdiff-backup to backup my system. It works by mirroring the source directory to the target directory (similarly to rsync -aAXu, I presume), but leaving reverse diffs in a directory named rdiff-backup within the target directory for all files…
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Check if Files Where Updated on HDD Without Spin-Up

I am looking for a way to check if files were added/deleted/updated on a network shared HDD without spinning it up if possible. First I will start with my set up. I have an Asus Router (running Merlin) with a 3.0 usb port connected to a HDD (call it…
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mergerfs no longer accepting "threads=2" option

I wrote my backup script to automatically combine two external drives into one with mergerfs so I could use the whole thing as a destination directory for rdiff-backup. However, when I tried to run it recently I get the error: fuse: unknown option…
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Recover files deleted by rdiff-backup

I used the following rdiff-backup command to backup my home directory onto a mounted drive /run/media/me/bku. rdiff-backup -v 9 --force --include /home/me/ --exclude '**' / /run/media/me/bku At the destination there were other directories and files…
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