How to Install and Uninstall rdiff-backup Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "rdiff-backup" package

Please follow the steps below to install rdiff-backup on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Learn how to uninstall rdiff-backup on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                rdiff-backup
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the rdiff-backup package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: rdiff-backup
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.0.5-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Python Applications Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 736
Depends: python3-setuptools, python3 (<< 3.9), python3 (>= 3.8~), python3-pkg-resources, python3:any, libc6 (>= 2.4), librsync2 (>= 1.0.0)
Recommends: python3-pylibacl, python3-pyxattr
Filename: pool/universe/r/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup_2.0.5-1_amd64.deb
Size: 181428
MD5sum: d54d5e7eb122383c6879165776462522
SHA1: cc0fe9ad86bf08905d603ab9d388dbe189ed0ba6
SHA256: 930fa268904d5740698b4048f59473d06769717b0904e501117d8a43abdcdccc
SHA512: 04b7bc447c249b6549110fcd018e9f472339eae6723f21b74ce7c8e931e5486c43d0116c6afb5988fa15b9e742220335a4b221f7e218da342ea8a34d1f03900d
Homepage: https://rdiff-backup.net/
Description-en: 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: f0d05d9b77697c469e8b0b53030e2a32