On 07 Jul 2025 23:47:57 +0100 (BST), Theo wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:58:38 +0100, Brian Howlett wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > I bought a USB drive and formatted it to ext4 and used rsync to back   
   >> > up the Pi 5.   
   >>   
   >> Don’t forget the tips on how to keep a rolling set of timestamped   
   >> backups, without needing space for extra copies of files which haven’t   
   >> changed.   
   >   
   > rsnapshot does that for you, using rsync and hard links.   
      
   Sure, these convenient wrappers around rsync handle some common cases   
   with less work. But they still don’t offer the full power and   
   generality of rsync itself.   
      
   Also, rsnapshot refers to this article   
   , which has been   
   obsoleted by the addition of --link-dest to rsync. Does rsnapshot make   
   use of that to simplify things?   
      
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