Posts Tagged ‘bash’

Rdiff-backup on OS X

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Short and sweet

Download my script to automate rdiff-backup installation on OS X.

Longer version with background

I use rdiff-backup to keep all my systems backed up. Rdiff-backup keeps incremental changes and permission information, and only transmits changes over the network. It’s great for automated remote backups. All my Linux systems backup at least once a night, some several times daily to offsite locations via consumer-class internet connections. The first backup is painful if you have a lot of data, but after that only differences have to go so things are pretty smooth. (more…)