rdiff-backup
Reverse-incremental backups preserving file history
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, keeping the latest copy plus reverse diffs for older versions. It preserves permissions, ownership, and special files while working over SSH.
Key features
- Reverse-incremental storage
- Preserves file metadata
- Works over SSH
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-2.0 license
- Active community (1.3k GitHub stars)
- Written in Python
- Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM
rdiff-backup replaces
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