I have just published my first article: Automated and painless backup with rdiff-backup.
[...] will show you how to setup and configure rdiff-backup to backup a set of specified directories on computer A in an automated, painless and secure way to computer B. The backup process will be initiated from computer B. This means that this computer doesn’t have to be online 24/7. It also means that is relatively easy to make one computer a hub, backing up several servers.
My intention is that this will be the first article in a series about system administration and other interesting topics that deserves a more permanent place than a blog post. They will be written and updated as time permitts. But enough of this, head over to the articles section and start taking backups. If you have any comments, please mail me or leave a comment at the end of the article.
The best article around on rdiff-backup, unlike a number of others, there are certain steps that allow for some testing.
An issue with many tutorials is that they don’t provide for enough steps to test. Therefore you get to the end – it doesn’t work – and you’re left with little evidence where you went wrong.
Any way – a well written tutorial, thank you.