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authorEric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>2014-05-30 14:29:42 -0500
committerEric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>2014-05-30 14:30:42 -0500
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gnu: Add rdiff-backup.
* gnu/packages/backup.scm (rdiff-backup): New variable.
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@@ -184,3 +184,40 @@ ciphering, redundancy, differential backup, indexed extraction, multicore
compression, input and output serialisation, and tolerance to partial archive
errors.")
(license gpl3+)))
+
+(define-public rdiff-backup
+ (package
+ (name "rdiff-backup")
+ (version "1.2.8")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "mirror://savannah/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-"
+ version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1nwmmh816f96h0ff1jxk95ad38ilbhbdl5dgibx1d4cl81dsi48d"))))
+ (build-system python-build-system)
+ (native-inputs
+ `(("python2-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools)))
+ (inputs
+ `(("python" ,python-2)
+ ("librsync" ,librsync)))
+ (arguments
+ `(#:python ,python-2
+ #:tests? #f))
+ (home-page "http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/")
+ (synopsis "Local/remote mirroring+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.")
+ (license gpl2+)))