freebsd-ports/sysutils/rdiff-backup/pkg-descr
Sam Lawrance ef8a4adcd3 - Upgrade rdiff-backup to 1.0.1, which is the logical next version for both
rdiff-backup and rdiff-backup-devel.
- Remove rdiff-backup-devel and add an entry to MOVED to migrate users to
  rdiff-backup.
- Add an UPDATING to notify users about the incompatibility between the
  last version of rdiff-backup and version 1.0.1

PR:		ports/86108
Submitted by:	Vasil Dimov <vd@datamax.bg>
Approved by:	Steve Clement <steve@ion.lu> (maintainer, rdiff-backup)
		Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> (maintainer, rdiff-backup-devel)
Discussed with: submitter and a couple of other rdiff-backup users
2005-10-08 07:09:49 +00:00

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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.
WWW: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/