rdiff-backup Reviews

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rdiff-backup mentions (15)

• How do I copy data from one HDD to another using Linux Mint?

  Rdiff-backup - close to what you do currently but at least provides versioning. Based on rsync. Source: over 1 year ago

• Accomplishing What I Want With What I Have

  As in just a copy of your files? This I would barely consider a backup, more of just a mirror from a point in time. What're you missing by doing this? Versions of files, deduplication, and encryption (last one being very important for the best kind of backups, which should be off-site). Just because it's not files doesn't mean it's proprietary. Proprietary would mean secret and undocumented. There are many great... Source: over 1 year ago

• Name a program that doesn't get enough love!

  Rdiff Backup - Reverse differential backups that uses rsync, linking, and can tunnel via ssh. You get a full current backup with increments available to restore any version of the file with minimal storage space used. Source: over 1 year ago

• BorgBackup, Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

  Borg is great. we've been using it for the past 3 years to archive hundreds of file-level backups of servers, database dumps and VM images. Average size of each borg repo is few GB but there are few outliers up to few hundreds of GB. Borg replaced https://rdiff-backup.net/ for us and gave:. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Advice for Automated Copying of my Off Grid 6TB Media Hoard :)

  Robocopy is great if you don't have access to rsync. If rsync via WSL2 for instance is an option, I'd personally go with rdiffbackup. Source: over 1 year ago

FilePizza mentions (35)

• LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices

  There are a few browser based p2p file sharing tools [1] and a bunch of CLI tools out there as well for the same job. # Browser Based 1. FilePizza https://file.pizza/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• How to copy a file between devices?

  Here is a list of open source options. This isn't the first time I have shared this on here either. Perhaps this is another sign that web search is failing us. SnapDrop - Site: https://snapdrop.net/ - Source: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop - Source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop - Source: https://github.com/kern/filepizza - - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• This page exists only if someone is looking at it

  Https://file.pizza/ is another example of browser based peer to peer file transfer. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• What's the best, fastest, and free way for someone to share their 1.6 TB audiobook collection with me?

  Alternatively, if going the p2p route, they could try something like file.pizza. Source: 11 months ago

• CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library

  FYI: you can use https://file.pizza/ for sending the file outside the network. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago