Backup local directories to a remote server leveraging rdiff-backup.

This gem provides an executable script, rdbackup, that allows to backup local directories to a remote server. The actual backup operation is ensured by rdiff-backup. The backup configuration is provided by a YAML file.

Example backup configuration:

server: &backup_server
    hostname: backup-server
    directory: /var/lib/backup

backup:
    - directory: /var/lib/dir1
      server: *backup_server

    - directory: /var/lib/dir2
      server: *backup_server

Start a backup according to a given configuration file.

$ rdbackup go path/to/config.yml

Start a backup considering default configuration ($HOME/.rdbackup.conf otherwise /etc/rdbackup.conf)

$ rdbackup go

rdiff-backup shall be installed on current host and remote host. Running as root should the preferable option In order to backup system files.

$ gem install rdbackup

Copyright (c) 2012 Christophe Arguel

See {file:LICENSE.txt} for details.