Re: NAS Backup solution?

On 23/06/2025 at 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
 

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