Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup destnation access protocols

[David Kempe]

Devraj Mukherjee wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am a rdiff-backup newbie. Does rdiff-backup support protocols like
> FTP to fetch files?

Hi Devraj,
you can do some tricky things with the remote-schema stuff, but the 
problem is that rdiff-backup expects an rdiff-backup server to be at the 
other end of a pipe (of some sort). So things like netcat can work, and 
of course ssh by default, but ftp is not a pipe.
Duplicity can do this, or you could figure out some tricky filesystem 
stuff with fuse or libferris. For the most part, rdiff-backup has to be 
at each end whether push or pull.

dave