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https://rdiff-backup.net/ ^[ 1 ] was http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

Combines rsync with diff storage, so one can retrieve a backup from any point in time.

My initial impression was “Works wonderfully well.. very easy to use, very nice. Would be nice to have a GUI tool for recovery purposes though, but oh well.” .. but my 2009-04-01 glance was a flop.

• Needs SSH for remote stuff.. it would work nicely with an ssh mount!

• 2009-04-01 – 1.2.8 on PCLinuxOS (version not recorded)

• 2007-06-17 – (version not recorded) on (distribution not recored)

  • I had no notes other than having a positive first impression.

2009-04-01 – 1.2.8 ∞

PCLinuxOS has 1.2.0, but I see the website has 1.2.8, released March 16th 2009 so I’ll get that.

gnu.mirrors.pair.com/savannah/savannah/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.8.tar.gz ^[ 2 ] was savannah.nongnu.org/download/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.8.tar.gz

fails.. hard

Python 2.5.2

python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local
running install
error: invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)

Python 3.0.1

python3.0 setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local
  File "setup.py", line 9
    print "Sorry, rdiff-backup requires version 2.2 or later of python"
                                                                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax