./sysutils/rdiff-backup, Remote incremental backup utility

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Branch: pkgsrc-2008Q1, Version: 1.0.5, Package name: rdiff-backup-1.0.5, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network.
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, hard links, dev 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.


Required to run:
[lang/python24] [devel/librsync]

Master sites:

SHA1: 4d33ef3d93532ce1746728e2c5687da354fafcec
RMD160: 20b02096f2dac04c06d76337126252a1d84f4b8d
Filesize: 148.647 KB

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