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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: NAS Backup solution?
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:43:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:13:52 +0200, Deloptes wrote:

> Forget all BS like rsync etc. except you don't care about disk space.

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.