From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:15:18 +0200, Deloptes wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> rsync has this nifty option called “--link-dest”, which lets you create   
   >> incremental backups that look like full backups for restoration   
   >> purposes, but with files that were unchanged since the last backup   
   >> deduped to reduce disk space.   
   >   
   > rsync is good tool, but it is not a backup tool ...   
      
   It most certainly is a backup tool, among many other functions.   
      
   > the mentioned functionality is meant to reduce traffic and save time   
   > more than reduce disk space.   
      
   It does that too.   
      
   > And I do not know how a restore would look like with rsync.   
      
   rsync just creates a mirror of the state of the filesystem. Restoration is   
   done with regular file copy commands -- e.g. an rsync in the opposite   
   direction.   
      
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