Questions tagged [rdiff-backup]
Backup tool for performing full and incremental backups.
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rdiff-backup fails with Not allowed to remove extended attribute b'security.selinux' from path
Recently, my rdiff-backup began to fail shortly after it starts.
I run this:
rdiff-backup -v 9 --force /path/to/my/local/dir/ [email protected]::/mnt/my_dir/
After a few seconds to a minute it shows ...
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changing a file in a backup from rdiff-backup
I use rdiff-backup to backup my system. It works by mirroring the source directory to the target directory (similarly to rsync -aAXu, I presume), but leaving reverse diffs in a directory named rdiff-...
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Check if Files Where Updated on HDD Without Spin-Up
I am looking for a way to check if files were added/deleted/updated on a network shared HDD without spinning it up if possible.
First I will start with my set up.
I have an Asus Router (running Merlin)...
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mergerfs no longer accepting "threads=2" option
I wrote my backup script to automatically combine two external drives into one with mergerfs so I could use the whole thing as a destination directory for rdiff-backup. However, when I tried to run it ...
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Recover files deleted by rdiff-backup
I used the following rdiff-backup command to backup my home directory onto a mounted drive /run/media/me/bku.
rdiff-backup -v 9 --force --include /home/me/ --exclude '**' / /run/media/me/bku
At the ...
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rdiff-backup needs too much space to recover from failure of previous backup?
I have quite a lot of free space (and inodes) on this filesystem, but rdiff-backup apparently runs out of space. And hence my backups are not working at the moment :-(. Why?
(I wonder how much ...
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Found too many current_mirror incs!
After upgrading my rdiff backup
rdiff-backup --version
rdiff-backup 1.2.8
i get the following error message:
Exception 'Found too many current_mirror incs!' raised of class '<type 'exceptions....
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Install rdiff-backup on centos 7
I'm having trouble installing rdiff backup on Centos 7. Every google search is telling to get this https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/r/rdiff-backup-1.2.8-11.el7.x86_64.rpm one way or the ...
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rdiff-backup - backup folder smaller than the original / error when restoring files
I'm testing rdiff-backup and I thought maybe someone could help me out.
1: Why is my backup smaller than the original folder?
In my remote server I have 36G and in my backup server it's only 29G.
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iconv module (to use with rsync) to avoid windows-illegal filenames in local NTFS partition
I would like to locally attach an NTFS volume to my unix (Ubuntu) machine, and copy (replicate) some unix directories to it, using rsync, in a way that the result is readable under Windows.
I do not ...
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How are XFS deltas for xfsdump -l n calculated?
I have a xfs filesystem with many small and a couple very large files (~100GB), its on a lvm2 volume. I want to do incremental backups from it. Is there any computational overhead when using a tool ...
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rdiff-backup operation not permitted [closed]
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I'm trying to execute the following command in my Python script:
rdiff-backup --terminal-verbosity=5 --remote-schema "ssh %s -p1019 -i
C:/Users/Adam/.ssh/private-passphrase rdiff-...
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Checking destination directory after "No space left on device" error
My latest backup attempt with rdiff-backup failed due to "[Errno 28] No space left on device". And it's true, according to du there are 0 bytes available on the backup device.
When I now try to ...
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Backup using rsnapshot not working
I have a server web based Linux and i want to make backup every hour using rsnapshot. this is my rsnapshot file configuration :
config_version 1.2
snapshot_root /var/Majjane-Save/
cmd_cp /...
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rsnapshot backup not working?
I installed rsnapshot and configured it to make backup every hour. But the issue is all backups that are made not working. Let me explain to you, I made 3 backups hourly.0, hourly.1 and hourly.2.
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Software to do a 3 way backup
I am currently doing a backup of my system on an external hard disk using rdiff-backup. This kind of backup is good when the disk dies. However, I was also wondering if I can extend this method to do ...
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Wildcards in exclude-filelist for duplicity
I am trying to exclude a "bulk" folder in each home directory from the backup. For this purpose, I have a line
- /data/home/*/bulk
in my exclude-filelist file.
However, this doesn't seem to be ...
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How to free space taken by rdiff-backup data?
I use rdiff-backup for my backups. My disk runs out of space.
I would like to clean some rdiff-backup data by removing either:
the backup data of small files with a large number of different ...
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Is there a FUSE which permits transparently accessing incremental backups?
While creating incremental backups is relatively simple (and can be automated, e.g. via rdiff-backup), in order to access a specific state of a file one first has to manually restore the backup, which ...
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--remote-schema option for rdiff-backup
I'm running the following command:
rdiff-backup --remote-schema '%s' 'sudo /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --server \
--restrict-read-only /'::/etc /var/backups/hosts/derp
It's backing up /etc from ...
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Incremental system backup and restore w/ rsync or rdiff-backup issues
I've been reading about using rsync and rdiff-backup to make incremental backups of my entire Linux system. I am planning to practise that by setting up a Linux system, making some changes to it, ...
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