Information about the package, rdiff-backup, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rdiff-backup package is designed for, Convenient and transparent local/remote incremental mirror/backup.
Package Name:
rdiff-backup
Summary:
Convenient and transparent local/remote incremental mirror/backup
Description:
rdiff-backup is a script, written in Python, that backs up one directory to another and is intended to be run periodically (nightly from cron for instance). The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in the 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 can also 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 from the previous backup will be transmitted.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2.8
Release:
6.el6
Size:
344 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the rdiff-backup package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install rdiff-backup
This command will install rdiff-backup on the server.
yum remove rdiff-backup
This command will un-install rdiff-backup on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rdiff-backup, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove rdiff-backup
This command will un-install rdiff-backup on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rdiff-backup when using the -y flag.
yum update rdiff-backup
This command will update rdiff-backup to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rdiff-backup, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update rdiff-backup
This command will update rdiff-backup to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove rdiff-backup when using the -y flag.
yum info rdiff-backup
This command will show you core information about the rdiff-backup package.
yum deplist rdiff-backup
This command will show you the dependencies for rdiff-backup. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update rdiff-backup
This command will check if there is an update waiting on rdiff-backup. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.