From: jack@handsome.com   
      
   On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 08:53:10 +0000, Mike Scott wrote:   
      
   > On 03/02/2026 03:27, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 23:13:53 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> rsync has the --link-dest option so it can do the deduping for you.   
   >>   
   >> Just to clarify, I mean deduping across different backup snapshots, to   
   >> avoid creating additional copies of a file that has not changed, not   
   >> within a single backup snapshot.   
   >   
   > Isn't this where timeshift and 'back in time' come in? They're really   
   > just front-ends to rsync plus scheduling of one sort or another.   
   > They seem to work well enough.   
   >   
   > Or are we talking archiving here, as opposed to backup? Or some mixture?   
      
   Timeshift doesn't work on non-ext4 destination disks, which rules it out   
   for removable disks that might have to be used on a spare Windows machine.   
      
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