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diff --git a/gnu/packages/backup.scm b/gnu/packages/backup.scm index e5ff2373e1..4cbeec5b3b 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/backup.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/backup.scm @@ -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+))) |