How to Install and Uninstall rdiff-backup Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "rdiff-backup" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install rdiff-backup on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "rdiff-backup" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall rdiff-backup on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the rdiff-backup package on Kali Linux

Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 2.2.6-1
Installed-Size: 1203
Maintainer: Debian Python Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: python3-setuptools, python3 (<< 3.13), python3 (>= 3.11~), python3-importlib-metadata | python3-supported-min (>= 3.8), python3-yaml, python3:any, libc6 (>= 2.4), librsync2 (>= 1.0.0)
Recommends: python3-pylibacl, python3-pyxattr
Size: 287344
SHA256: 05dc882e4fecc07da3821ebb278fb9e6e66192ad5831b3fde2f6a7ac7a43f90c
SHA1: d489e3a006b29d79db211a10ffc41bfb4c4dba72
MD5sum: 1721d8c3e7c4ee9d214ebfa626b41bdc
Description: remote incremental backup
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.
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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 sensible defaults.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://rdiff-backup.net/
Tag: admin::backup, implemented-in::python, role::program, scope::utility,
use::storing, works-with::file
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup_2.2.6-1_amd64.deb