# The sysutils/rdiff-backup port

## rdiff-backup-1.2.8p8 – incremental backup

## Description

    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 sensical defaults.

WWW: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

Categories:
  lang/python sysutils

## Library dependencies

- net/librsync

## Build dependencies

- lang/python/2.7

## Run dependencies

- lang/python/2.7