Questions tagged [rdiff-backup]

I'm using rdiff-backup since a long time to pull backups over SSH to the backup-server. Recently rdiff-backup crashed with Errno 36. So I deleted the file which had the long name in the source. However, I can't get rdiff-backup to work again. I keep…

archfs is a tool that lets one mount a rdiff-backup as a drive, and then browse the contents of the backup as if they were snapshots (think if BackInTime or Rsnapshot). rdiff-backup is a great tool made even greater by archfs. If it would only…

I need to run rdiff-backup version 1 (say 1.2.8) on Ubuntu 20.04 to allow the Ubuntu 20.04 box to be backed up by a legacy backup server. I tried to follow the post here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1280195/1564231, but this gave me the error: # apt…

I recently had a problem with restoring an incremental snapshot using rdiff-backup where my main drive ran out of space. After setting --tempdir as discussed here, the problem went away and while restoring I can see bytes diminishing with df -h on…