On 27 Jun 2024 16:06 -0300, from edua...@kalinowski.com.br (Eduardo M KALINOWSKI): >> Now I have a pair of 500 GB external USB drives. Large compared to my >> working data of ~3 GB. Please suggest improvements to my backup >> system by exploiting these drives. I can imagine a complete copy of A >> onto an external drive for each backup; but with most files in A not >> changing during the backup interval, that is inefficient. > > rnapshot
Yes, rsnapshot. Which is essentially a front-end to rsync --link-dest; so, for mostly-static data, very efficient. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”