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Rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network.
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The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra
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reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target
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directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea
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is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup.
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Rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files,
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permissions, uid/gid ownership (if it is running as root), modification
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times, acls, eas, resource forks, etc. Finally, rdiff-backup can operate
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in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can
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use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote
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location, and only the differences will be transmitted.
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