I never got around to actually finishing this project. With the rise of filesystems that support snapshotting and deduplication this project has become less relavant for me. I'd suggest using obnam or ZFS as alternatives to rdiff-backup workflows.

A simple wrapper around rdiff-backup

• Source Code
• API documentation
• Rubygem

$ gem install rdiff-simple

In your file:

  require 'rdiff_simple'

  rdiff = RdiffSimple::RdiffBackup.new
  rdiff.backup('/source', '/destination', :print_statistics, exclude: '/source/private')
  rdiff.verify('/destination')

Released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for further details.