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Submitted by Shoutmeloud on 08/02/2012 – Made popular on 08/02/2012

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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?

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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.

Hello...

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

rdiff-backup /media/HW_WIN/00_Proj /media/SlavkoBKP/RDIFF-CAA/00_Proj rdiff-backup /media/HW_WIN/88_Internet/ /media/SlavkoBKP/RDIFF-CAA/88_Internet

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

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I'd like to try archfs or rdiff-backup-fs (as I understand it's same) but can't figure the right command line.

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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.

I'm backing up various folders, including database dumps, /etc and /var/www. I've noticed that the script uses the --backup-mode for the webroot folder, but not for the others.

Can anyone explain what this option does?

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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