Hi, On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:25:48PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 14:15:29 -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > There are backup suites > > > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many backups > > > without needing to store duplicate copies of the unchanged files. > > > > > > > Care to list some of those? I need to get some kind of a backup process > > going here... > > I've never used any of them personally, but a quick web search > came up with this thread > <https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/125k6i9/suggestions_for_incremental_backup_software/> > which lists borg, restic, duplicati, rsnapshot, and a few others.
This list hit the "incremental" property but not the "rsync" property: Of the above borg and restic definitely do not use rsync, I don't know about duplicati but it probably doesn't. rsnapshot does directly use rsync. I have more than 20 years of experience using rsnpashot. For non-trivial amounts of files I would not recommend rsnapshot or any other rsync-based backup system in 2025. "Non-trivial" is still a pretty large amount though and rsnapshot does have the extremely desirable feature of being very very simple, so could still be a solid choice. borg and restic are actively developed and are IMHO good choices for most people in 2025. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
