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Using rdiff-backup and rdiffWeb to Back Up and Restore

Issue 198

From Issue #198
October 2010

Dec 01, 2010  By Adrian Klaver
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rdiff-backup combines the best features of a mirror and incremental backups.
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Thanks for mentioning RdiffWeb

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Submitted by Keith Daniels on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 11:50.

I've been using rdiff-backup for years. I do a twice daily automatic backup using a cron job to a second drive. I also use a cron job to remove any data older than one month.

I really liked how easy it was to specify exactly which directories and files you did and did not want backed up.

My biggest gripe was that restoring was such a pain. Normally I only needed the current backup info which is not compressed and can easily be accessed using copy and paste. But when I needed one of the older backups, First, I couldn't remember how and Second, it took a lot of effort after I reviewed how to use it.

I'm going to download RdiffWeb right now and see how well it solves the restore process...

Thanks again.

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