Rdiff-backup is a popular backup tool for Linux that allows you to create incremental backups of your files. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Rdiff-backup on Arch Linux.
Before getting started, you need to ensure that your system is up-to-date. Run the following command to update your package lists:
sudo pacman -Syu
The easiest way to install Rdiff-backup on Arch Linux is to use pacman, the package manager for Arch Linux. Run the following command to install Rdiff-backup:
sudo pacman -S rdiff-backup
That's it! Rdiff-backup is now installed on your system.
To use Rdiff-backup, you need to run the rdiff-backup command followed by the source and destination directories. For example, to backup the /home/user directory to /mnt/backup, run the following command:
sudo rdiff-backup /home/user /mnt/backup
To restore a backup, you need to run the rdiff-backup command in reverse order, with the destination directory first and the source directory second. For example, to restore the backup from /mnt/backup to /home/user, run the following command:
sudo rdiff-backup /mnt/backup /home/user
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Rdiff-backup on Arch Linux. We also covered the basic usage of Rdiff-backup for creating and restoring backups. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to leave a comment below.
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