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Fast file comparison that displays results side by side with structure understanding (a la total commander in windows)
Is there a way/tool to show differences between two files side by side only highlighting differences in a similar way kdiff3 does that but with a tool that is reasonably fast?A similar question was ...
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Supplying RDiff Base File Using Pipe Results in Illegal Seek Error
If I run the following rdiff command
rdiff patch basefile patchfile outputfile
everything works as expected, however, if I try to use stdin to provide the base file like this
xz -d -c basefile.xz | ...
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Is it true that rsync does not handle "File renames" gracefully?
While using the backup tool duplicity, I noticed that if I rename a file on the source, the data will be resent again over the network to the destination, which is a bit sad. Since duplicity uses ...
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rdiff-backup - backup folder smaller than the original / error when restoring files
I'm testing rdiff-backup and I thought maybe someone could help me out.
1: Why is my backup smaller than the original folder?
In my remote server I have 36G and in my backup server it's only 29G.
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Backup using rsnapshot not working
I have a server web based Linux and i want to make backup every hour using rsnapshot. this is my rsnapshot file configuration :
config_version 1.2
snapshot_root /var/Majjane-Save/
cmd_cp /...
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rsnapshot backup not working?
I installed rsnapshot and configured it to make backup every hour. But the issue is all backups that are made not working. Let me explain to you, I made 3 backups hourly.0, hourly.1 and hourly.2.
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What is the difference between rdiff and librsync?
In my project, I have to keep some files synchronized between two computers.
Both rdiff and librsync seem to do the same thing. Can anyone please point me to some differences so I can choose which ...
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