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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: NAS Backup solution?
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:45:36 +0100
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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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