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{"name":"rdiff-backup","tagline":"Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally.","body":"### rdiff-backup is reverse differential backup\r\n\r\nrdiff-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 (if it is running as root), modification times, acls, eas, resource forks, etc. Finally, 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. \r\n\r\nSol1 has officially taken over stewardship of rdiff-backup from February 2016. Sol1 has long been a contributor and user of rdiff-backup, and will maintain the open source nature of rdiff-backup, while bringing it into the modern era.\r\n\r\n### Usage\r\n\r\nThe wiki contains documentation on use cases, and serves as a respository of scripts for people to contribute to. These scripts do many things for and around rdiff-backup.\r\n\r\n### Authors and Contributors\r\n\r\n@sol1 is the current maintainer of rdiff-backup. \r\n\r\nProject Lead / Maintainer History:\r\n\r\n* Edward Ned Harvey, maintainer 2012 to 2016\r\n* Andrew Ferguson, maintainer 2008 to 2012\r\n* Dean Gaudet, maintainer 2006 to 2007\r\n* Ben Escoto, original author, maintainer 2001 to 2005.\r\n\r\nOther code contributors are:\r\n\r\n* Daniel Hazelbaker, who contributed Mac OS X resource fork support. (July 2003)\r\n* Dean Gaudet, for checking in many patches, and for finding and fixing many bugs.\r\n* Andrew Ferguson, for improving Mac OS X support and fixing many user-reported bugs.\r\n* Josh Nisly, for contributing native Windows support. (June 2008)\r\n* Fred Gansevles, for contributing Windows ACLs support. (July 2008)\r\n\r\nThanks also to:\r\n\r\n* The [Free Software Foundation](http://www.fsf.org/), for previously hosting the rdiff-backup project via their Savannah system.\r\n* Andrew Tridgell and Martin Pool for writing rdiff, and also for rsync, which gave Ben Escoto the idea\r\n* Martin Pool and Donovan Baarda for their work on librsync, which rdiff-backup needs.\r\n* Michael Friedlander for initially acting interested in the idea and giving me accounts for testing\r\n* Lots of people on the mailing list for their helpful comments, advice, and patches, particularly Alberto Accomazzi, Donovan Baarda, Jeb Campbell, Greg Freemyer, Jamie Heilman, Marc Dyksterhouse, and Ralph Lehmann.\r\n\r\n### Support or Contact\r\n\r\nPlease use the [GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/sol1/rdiff-backup/issues). The mailing list will remain active for the time being.\r\n","google":"UA-73754875-1","note":"Don't delete this file! It's used internally to help with page regeneration."}