Implement rdiff-backup support

[leegarrett]

https://rdiff-backup.net/ is another common backup tool. Implementing the importer might be a bit easier due to the fact that it's also written in python.

I've written a shell script that does it, however it's quite cumbersome as it requires the full extraction of a snapshot for borg to back it up, and rdiff-backup isn't very smart on restore (it restores a file even if it's unchanged).

[ThomasWaldmann]

I'ld guess for a simple implementation that would be also the way to go with borg-import importing such backups.

With a lot of effort one could theoretically maybe avoid that full extractions get written to disk, but I guess that would be too much work for just single-time use (per user). It's not just the file names and content, we also would need to care for all the other metadata.

[PhrozenByte]

In case users happen to stumble over this issue, here is a rather quick & dirty script that allows one to import incremental rdiff-backup backups into Borg: https://gist.github.com/PhrozenByte/78ae546db81cbc09f71b298159c6d66d

It also uses the approach of first extracting everything and then using that to create a Borg archive. I used this script 2,5 years ago to import some old backups, it worked just fine back then, but again: It's a quick & dirty hack and was written for my specific use case. I highly recommend creating a backup of the rdiff-backup repo (yes, a backup of backups…). If it doesn't fit one's needs, it might at least be a starting point for one's own script. Feel free to share your script(s), too.