TipsAndTricks

From RdiffBackupWiki

• RestrictOptions - An addendum to Dean Gaudet's page, describes --restrict options
• ElapsedTimeOddities - When backing up over SSH, make sure that the clocks on the two machines are syncronized
• UnattendedRdiff - How to get rdiff-backup running in a cron job
• UsingAnAlternateKey - Using UnattendedRdiff without messing up your root-login
• BackupSomeDirectoriesOnly - How to deal with the include/exclude directives with a simple example
• BackingUpToOsx - Caveats and things to look out for if backing up to a volume on a Mac OS X machine
• BackupUpOnUnreliableLink - Taking advantage of Rdiff Backup on an unreliable link coupling with rsync
• BackingUpUnicodeToSmbfsMount - Backing up from linux to windows share, preserving unicode file names
• BackupToSshfsMount - Run rdiff-backup across a SSHFS-mount.