Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 16th Oct 2005 10:07 UTC, submitted by Falko Timme
This tutorial describes how to do automated server backups with the tool rdiff-backup. rdiff-backup lets you make backups over a network using SSH so that the data transfer is encrypted. The use of SSH makes rdiff-backup very secure because noone can read the data that is being transferred. rdiff-backup makes incremental backups, thus saving bandwidth.
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"Also, at first glance it doesn't look like the backed-up data is stored encrypted."
True. You want Duplicity for encrypted backup. This is a philosophical difference. In rdiff-backup's author's word: "rdiff-backup's archives are meant to be as easy to view as possible."
More on this here:
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/duplicity.html