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Rdiff-backup is a small nifty python-based incremental backup software. Rdiff is similar to rsync, but adds support for incremental and revision-based backup. This way you can keep, in this example, up to 14 days of changes. Rdiff-backup also differs (!) from rsnapshot as it only stores the changes over time of a certain file, and this saves you a lot of storage. It’s extremely usable for database-backups, as they tend to change little but grow huge.

You might have to do small adjustments to stuff like users and parent directory. In this guide i use /root/ as parent directory for most actions, and all commands should work then.

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