Re: NAS Backup solution?

On 23/06/2025 11:25, Chris Elvidge wrote:

On 23/06/2025 at 07:15, Deloptes wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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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.

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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
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 I use rsync regularly to backup remote systems using ssh, where known_hosts and authorized_keys are correctly populated (eg):
rsync $OPTIONS remotehost:/ localdir/
to copy a whole remote host to a local directory system.
 

I also do this with an rsyncd on the far end ...

I can't see a way for borg to do this. Am I wrong?
 

It wouldn't be the first time a latest and greatest couldn't do the basics.
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