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rdiff-backup — Local/remote mirror and incremental backup tool. More information: <https://rdiff-backup.net/rdiff-b

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Problem

How to use the rdiff-backup command: Local/remote mirror and incremental backup tool. More information: <https://rdiff-backup.net/rdiff-backup.1.html>.

Solution

rdiff-backup — Local/remote mirror and incremental backup tool. More information: <https://rdiff-backup.net/rdiff-backup.1.html>.

Back up path/to/source to path/to/backup:

rdiff-backup backup {{path/to/source}} {{path/to/backup}}

List incremental backups in repository (location path, local, or remote):

rdiff-backup list increments {{repository}}

Restore from most recent backup:

rdiff-backup restore {{path/to/backup}} {{path/to/destination}}

Restore backed up files as they were 3 days ago:

rdiff-backup restore --at 3D {{path/to/backup}} {{path/to/destination}}

Code Snippets

Back up `path/to/source` to `path/to/backup`

rdiff-backup backup {{path/to/source}} {{path/to/backup}}

List incremental backups in repository (location path, local, or remote)

rdiff-backup list increments {{repository}}

Restore from most recent backup

rdiff-backup restore {{path/to/backup}} {{path/to/destination}}

Restore backed up files as they were 3 days ago

rdiff-backup restore --at 3D {{path/to/backup}} {{path/to/destination}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/rdiff-backup

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