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Subject: Re: NAS Backup solution?
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:15:18 +0200
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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