How to Install and Uninstall rdiff-backup Package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Last updated: December 27,2024

1. Install "rdiff-backup" package

This tutorial shows how to install rdiff-backup on openSuSE Tumbleweed


    
        
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                sudo zypper refresh
            
                    
    
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                sudo zypper install
            
                        
                rdiff-backup
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "rdiff-backup" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall rdiff-backup on openSuSE Tumbleweed:


    
        
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                sudo zypper remove
            
                        
                rdiff-backup
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the rdiff-backup package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Information for package rdiff-backup:
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Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name : rdiff-backup
Version : 2.2.6-2.2
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 2.4 MiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : rdiff-backup-2.2.6-2.2.src
Upstream URL : https://rdiff-backup.net/
Summary : Convenient and transparent local/remote incremental mirror/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, and modification times. 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.