HowtoForge: Automated Backups With rdiff-backup
Oct 18, 2005, 05:30 (1 Talkback[s])
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"This tutorial describes how to do automated server backups with
the tool rdiff-backup. rdiff-backup lets you make backups over a
network using SSH so that the data transfer is encrypted. The use
of SSH makes rdiff-backup very secure because noone can read the
data that is being transferred. rdiff-backup makes incremental
backups, thus saving bandwidth...
"The problem is that SSH requires a password for logging in
which is not good if you want to run rdiff-backup as a cron
job..."
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