Re: Using the Filesystem Backup module

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

Rob Brandt wrote:
>> I was thinking the same thing, but Jamie offered such a nice one-liner
>> to do it, I couldn't bring myself to argue.  ;-)
>>
>> I've setup rdiff-backup on my new dedicated server, and have my home
>> machine pull down diffs every night over ssh at 4AM onto a 10GB
>> partition.  So far it is working really great.  I can browse the
>> directory tree on my local machine, which is very convenient, and over
>> time it is turning out to be very space efficient (I have about two
>> weeks worth of daily backups of about 5GB of data on my local machine
>> and it is only taking about 7GB--I will have to upgrade my backup disk
>> to something bigger before too long though, since a lot more stuff is
>> going onto the server).
>>
>> rdiff-backup lives here:
>>
>> http://www.stanford.edu/~bescoto/rdiff-backup/
> 
> 
> Joe;
> 
> That URL seems to be off limits to the world.  Can you give a different 
> location?
> 
> Rob

It works for me, I just clicked it from the email to be sure I didn't 
mispell something.  As far as I know there is no mirror, or other source 
for this program.  This is the freshmeat entry for it, which has links 
to different packaged versions of the tool (some of which are on the 
same homepage I've linked to):

http://freshmeat.net/projects/rdiff-backup/?topic_id=137%2C861

Maybe the problem was temporary...can you get to it now?
-- 
Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
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