Re: NAS Backup solution?

On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 08:15:18 +0200, 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 ...

It most certainly is a backup tool, among many other functions.

the mentioned functionality is meant to reduce traffic and save time
more than reduce disk space.

It does that too.

And I do not know how a restore would look like with rsync.

rsync just creates a mirror of the state of the filesystem. Restoration is
done with regular file copy commands -- e.g. an rsync in the opposite
direction.