Source: rdiff-backup Section: utils Priority: optional Maintainer: Python Applications Packaging Team Uploaders: Otto Kekäläinen Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-python, librsync-dev, python3-all-dev, python3-pylibacl, python3-pyxattr, python3-setuptools, python3-setuptools-scm Standards-Version: 4.5.0 Homepage: https://rdiff-backup.net/ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/applications/rdiff-backup.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/applications/rdiff-backup Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: rdiff-backup Architecture: any Depends: python3-setuptools, ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Recommends: python3-pylibacl, python3-pyxattr Description: remote incremental backup 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, modification times, extended attributes, acls, and resource forks. . 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 sensible defaults.