aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/sysutils/rdiff-backup
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorYen-Ming Lee <leeym@FreeBSD.org>2003-07-04 04:06:26 +0000
committerYen-Ming Lee <leeym@FreeBSD.org>2003-07-04 04:06:26 +0000
commit5dfcbd05222b74f2e2ce5c96cfd6081eeeb56af6 (patch)
tree3fafbb5354933e4b7193fecd17877a3441788097 /sysutils/rdiff-backup
parenta260c01f89ba4ecccde5360837613c68a311fcef (diff)
downloadports-5dfcbd05222b74f2e2ce5c96cfd6081eeeb56af6.tar.gz
ports-5dfcbd05222b74f2e2ce5c96cfd6081eeeb56af6.zip
Notes
Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils/rdiff-backup')
-rw-r--r--sysutils/rdiff-backup/pkg-descr14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/sysutils/rdiff-backup/pkg-descr b/sysutils/rdiff-backup/pkg-descr
index 1e5ded28dfa9..0f36779040b9 100644
--- a/sysutils/rdiff-backup/pkg-descr
+++ b/sysutils/rdiff-backup/pkg-descr
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The
target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse
-diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can
-still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best
+diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you
+can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best
features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves
-subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership (if it is
-running as root), and modification times. Finally, rdiff-backup can operate in
-a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use
-rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and
-only the differences will be transmitted.
+subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership (if it
+is running as root), and modification times. Finally, rdiff-backup can operate
+in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use
+rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location,
+and only the differences will be transmitted.
WWW: http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/