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   The Natural Philosopher to Deloptes   
   Re: NAS Backup solution?   
   23 Jun 25 08:45:36   
   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 23/06/2025 07:15, 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, while Borg Backup is a   
   > perfect backup tool.   
   > the mentioned functionality is meant to reduce traffic and save time more   
   > than reduce disk space.   
   > And I do not know how a restore would look like with rsync. With borg it is   
   > a one liner.   
   > I leave the decision with the OP   
      
   Rsync is an excellent backup tool. Not the least because it contains an   
   exact copy of the source.   
      
   Restore is simply a question of using it in reverse.   
      
      
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