Rdiffweb is a web application that allows you to view repositories generated by rdiff-backup. The purpose of this application is to ease the management of backups and quickly restore your data with a rich and powerful web interface.

Rdiffweb is written in Python and is released as open source project under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL). All source code and documentation are Copyright Rdiffweb contributors.

Rdiffweb is actively developed by Patrik Dufresne since November 2014.

The Rdiffweb source code is hosted on self-hosted Gitlab and mirrored to Github.

The Rdiffweb website is https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb.

With its rich web interface Rdiffweb provide a notable list of features:

• Browse your backup
• Restore single file or multiple files as an archived
• Users authentication via local database and LDAP
• Users authorization
• Email notification when backup is not successful
• Configurable repository encoding
• Configurable retention period
• Backup statistics visualization using graphs
• SSH Keys management
• Disk quota visualization

If you quickly want to check how rdiffweb is behaving, you may try our demo server hosted on:

http://demo.patrikdufresne.com/

Use the following credential to login:

• Username: admin
• Password: admin123

For detailed installation steps, take a look at the Documentation.

You may download rdiffweb from pypi.

You should read the Documentation to properly install rdiffweb in your environment.

Rdiffweb users should use the Rdiffweb mailing list. To subscribe, go to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rdiffweb

Bug reports should be reported on the Rdiffweb development web site at https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb/issues

Professional support for Rdiffweb is available by contacting Patrik Dufresne Service Logiciel.

This release provides little improvement to the v1.2.x including official support of rdiff-backup v2.0.0.

• Enhance the repository to invite users to refresh the repository when the view is empty.
• Support rdiff-backup v2.0.0
• Deprecate support for cherrypy 4, 5, 6 and 7
• Improve loading of repository data (cache status and entries)
• Restore compatibility with SQLite 3.7 (CentOS7)

Known issues:

• Filename encoding in tar.gz and zip file might not be accurate if you are running Python 3.6 (CentOS7)

Little bug fix following the previous release

• Fix 404 error when trying to access other users repo as admin
• Fix logging format for cherrypy logs to matches rdiffweb format
• Add log rotation by default

This release focus on improving the database layers for better extendability to add more type of data and to support more databases backend like postgresql in the near future.

• Add explicit testing for Debian Stretch & Buster
• Change the persistence layers
  • Minimize number of SQL queries
  • Add object lazy loading
  • Add object data caching
• Fix bugs with SQLite <= 3.16 (Debian Stretch)

This release focus on improving the admin area and building the fundation for repository access control list (ACL).

• Update documentation from PDSL web site
• Improve the navigation bar layout
• Update the login page headline
• Update jinja2 version to allow 2.10.x
• Show server log in admin area
• Reduce code smell
• Add System information in admin area
• Validate credential using local database before LDAP
• Reffactoring templates macros
• Enhance user's view search bar
• Change repository URL to username/repopath
• Add System information in admin area
• Improve testcases
• Clean-up obsolete code
• Fix issue with captital case encoding name
• Fix compilation of less files
• Fix google font import

• Removing the auto update repos

• Create "admin" user if missing
• Update french translation

• Update installation documentation
• Fix removal of SSH Key
• Return meaningful error to the user trying to add an existing SSH key

• Make repository removal more robust
• Improve performance of librdiff
• Add new RESTful api
• Return the right HTTP 401 or 402 error code for authentication
• Fix bug introduce by upgrade to Jinja2 + python3
• Store ssh keys in database and disk
• Add support for theme (default, orange)
• Remove deprecated profiling code
• Add disk usage support / quota
• Add support of cherrypy v18
• Drop support of cherrypy v3.2.2
• Add wsgi entry point
• Replace the plugins architecture to ease implementation
• Numerous bug fixes

• Better error handling when error.log file are not valid gzip file