rdiff-backup

remote incremental backup

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/rdiff-backup.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install rdiff-backup
Ubuntu
apt-get install rdiff-backup
Alpine
apk add rdiff-backup
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S rdiff-backup
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install rdiff-backup
Fedora
dnf install rdiff-backup
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rdiff-backup
OS X
brew install rdiff-backup
Raspbian
apt-get install rdiff-backup
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/rdiff-backup rdiff-backup powered by Commando

rdiff-backup

remote incremental backup

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