Use FUSE (filesystem in userspace) to access rdiff-backup repository.
Install rdiff-backup-fs package.
$ sudo apt install rdiff-backup-fs
Mount ~milosz/backup/ansible rdiff-backup repository to ~milosz/fuse directory.
$ rdiff-backup-fs ~milosz/fuse ~milosz/backup/ansible
Display incremental backups in the repository.
$ ls ~milosz/fuse/
2020-08-30T21:07:35 2020-08-31T22:23:04
List files in the specific backup.
You can perform regular filesystem operations using FUSE to get all information you need.
$ ls fs/2020-08-30T21\:07\:35/
inventory playbooks roles tests vagrant ansible.cfg ansible.log readme.md
List mounted rdiff-backup-fs userspace filesystems.
$ mount -t fuse.rdiff-backup-fs
rdiff-backup-fs on /home/milosz/Projekty/fuse type fuse.rdiff-backup-fs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
Umount FUSE filesystem.
$ umount ~milosz/fuse/
Please read how to perform an incremental backup using rdiff-backup blog post for more details.
