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One thing that really sucks on rdiff-backup

I’ve been using rdiff-backup for sometime for my own projects, and I’m actually very happy with the way it works with incremental backups of three of my servers and two desktop computers. But there’s a thing that really sucks: when a connection to a remote host fails, next time it will try to regress all [...]

Sudo without password problems on kubuntu?

I needed an account that have the ability to get root privileges for running certain scripts without requesting for a password -it’s an unatended process-, so as you know the best way to do this on GNU/LiNUX is “sudo” command. To set up this, on kubuntu -and other ubuntu variants, and surely other distributions- there’s [...]

XRestore, an script for rdiff-backup script…

I’ve wrote this script to restore rdiff-backups with regular users conserving the files ownerships.
The problem is that in modern UNiX systems -like GNU/LiNUX- regular users cannot change the owner of files because this is a security thread, so to allow that rdiff-backup could restore file ownership it must run as superuser -root-.
This script acts as [...]

rdiff-backup and regular users

How to create backups with rdiff-backup restorable by regular users.