Questions tagged [rdiff-backup]
Backup tool for performing full and incremental backups.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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