Announce rdiff-backup HowTo - Initial

Gang,
 I've put together a quick HowTo for installing rdiff-backup
<http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/examples.html> on SME 5.X. It should work on
6.0 as well, but I don't have a test box handy right now so I can't confirm
that. Can anyone else?

 What is rdiff-backup? From the website...

"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, and modification times.
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 sensical defaults."

 Note: There is a web interface for rdiff-backup in the works and listed on the
site, but I have not tried that at all. It looks like it is in it's infancy.

 You can view the HowTo here => http://www.soho-solutions.ca/sme_rdiff_backup.htm

 Do your best!

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Noah Genner
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http://www.genner.on.ca/noahville/

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