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[all variants] archfs / rdiff-backup-fs

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hello.... I'd like to try archfs or rdiff-backup-fs (as I understand it's same) but can't figure the right command line. I make (test) backup with command rdiff-backup in-dir out-dir changed/deleted some files and make backup again few times. I was able to find "lost" files but it's hard to do. archfs is a tool to make that easyer but I don't know how to set up. I can't find any examples... just know the commandline to be rdiff-backup-fs <mount point path> <repository path> but don't understand parameters. can someone help me? Thanks (Hardware)

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Submitted by xskl on 08/20/2012

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Hello...

Does someone know how to join this backup to single command?

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I can't figure how to manage --include option..

rdiff-backup UpdateError 42 weeks 2 days ago

I am running rdiff-backup on my linux servers for backups and getting some error on Update like this

UpdateError aa.MYD Updated mirror temp file /backup/rdiff-backup.tmp.59 does not match source

how can i fix these errors.

I recently found rdiff-backup which seems to be very useful incremental alternative to rsync. But there's an issue, while trying to use the rdiff-backup to make a mirror of a folder in other one, it changes permissions of source folder ( specially it changes the read-only 400 to 644 ) Any suggestion on how to fix it?

I've got rdiff-backup up & running nicely using cron jobs over SSH between two VMs (my webserver and a backup space), using scripts put together from various places online.

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Can anyone explain what this option does?

Whats the best way to mirror a rdiff-backup to an external drive and persevere the rdiff history of the local copy ?

I was thinking

Code: rsync ~/rdiffdirectory /directory on external volume also if I did this...

Code:

rdiff-backup ~/rdiffdirectory /directory on external volume Would this really screw things up?

Thanks in advance.

i unplugged the wrong machine during an rdiff-backup run, and when i try to ssh to that machine now, i get 'connection refused'.

the machine was set up with ssh-copy-id before the accidental unplug.

anything obvious i might have forgotten to check?

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