About:
rdup is a utility inspired by rsync and the Plan9 way of doing backups. rdup itself does not backup anything; it only prints a list of the names of files that have changed since the last backup. It also handles files that are removed, allowing for correct incremental backups. Auxilary script that implement a backup strategy are included.

Author:
Miek Gieben [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://miek.nl/projects/rdup/
Tar/BZ2:
http://miek.nl/projects/rdup/rdup-0.6.0.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://miek.nl/projects/rdup/svn/tags/0.6.0/ChangeLog

Trove categories: [change]

[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3
[Topic]		System :: Archiving :: Backup

Dependencies: [change]
GLib (Default branch) (required)
GNU Bash 3.0 (required)
Portable OpenSSH (recommended)
cstream (optional)
mcrypt (optional)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.6.0	30-May-2008	GNU General Public License v3

 Comments

[»] How is this different from find?
by The Lars - Apr 25th 2006 07:24:21

Hi there,

I'm curious how 'rdup' is different from the 'find' command, which can trivially print out a list of files modified since the date on some arbitrary timestamp file:

find . -type f -newer .lastbackup -print

You simply 'touch .lastbackup' whenever you successfully complete your backup. The description for rdup makes it sound like it's doing pretty much the same thing...but some of the comments on the different releases imply that it actually has some additional features. Maybe just the description needs updating?

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[»] Re: How is this different from find?
by Miek Gieben - Apr 25th 2006 07:40:54


> find . -type f -newer .lastbackup

> -print

what this doesn't take into account is removed files, rdup
does show files that are removed since the last run.

grtz Miek


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