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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: NAS Backup solution?
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 22:11:39 -0000 (UTC)
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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.