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Backup is a pain. Yet these days many of us actually have access to relatively large quantities of storage on multiple systems, all connected together by the Internet. The combination of cheap computers, cheaper hard drives, and the magic of TCP/IP ought to mean that keeping backups of our vital files should be no problem at all.

This Trac installation is setup for the project I'm working on for Google's Summer of Code, under the Fedora Project. The below application I submitted to Google will give you more info on what this is all about.

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.