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rdiff-backup is a simple backup tool which can be used locally and
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remotely, on Linux and Windows, and even cross-platform between both.
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Users have reported using it successfully on FreeBSD and MacOS X.
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Beside its ease of use, one of the main advantages of rdiff-backup is
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that it does use the same efficient protocol as rsync to transfer and
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store data. Because rdiff-backup only stores the differences from the
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previous backup to the next one (a so called reverse incremental
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backup), the latest backup is always a full backup, making it easiest
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and fastest to restore the most recent backups, combining the space
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advantages of incremental backups while keeping the speed advantages
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of full backups (at least for recent ones).
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If the optional (runtime) dependencies pylibacl and pyxattr are
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installed, rdiff-backup will support Access Control Lists and Extended
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Attributes provided the file system(s) also support these features.
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IMPORTANT: rdiff-backup 2.x is wire-incompatible with versions 1.x, for
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local backups there's no problem but if you backup remotely you have to
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use the same version of rdiff-backup in the client and server.
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