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Thank you for putting into words what ive subconsciously been thinking for years. Every search result prioritizes videos at the top and I'm still annoyed every time. Or even worst I have to hunt through a 10 minute video for the 30 seconds of info I needed. Stoohhhhpppp internet of new! Make it good again!

They linked blog post with the video: https://vkc.sh/everyday-rsync/

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Hear hear. Knowledge should be communicated in an easily shareable way that can also be archived as easily, in contrast to a video requiring hundreds of MB:s.

Especially for a command line tool

I would generally argue that rsync is not a backup solution.

Yeah, if you want to use rsync specifically for backups, you're probably better-off using something like rdiff-backup, which makes use of rsync to generate backups and store them efficiently, and drive it from something like backupninja, which will run the task periodically and notify you if it fails.

rsync: one-way synchronization

unison: bidirectional synchronization

git: synchronization of text files with good interactive merging.

rdiff-backup: rsync-based backups. I used to use this and moved to restic, as the backupninja target for rdiff-backup has kind of fallen into disrepair.

That doesn't mean "don't use rsync". I mean, rsync's a fine tool. It's just...not really a backup program on its own.

Yes, but a few hours writing my own scripts will save me from several minutes of reading its documentation...

And I generally enjoy Veronica's presentation. Knowledgable and simple.

If you add --delete-before, it absolutely can delete stuff.

That part threw me off. Last time i used it, I did incremental backups of a 500 gig disk once a week or so, and it took 20 seconds max.

Compared to something multi threaded, yes. But there are obviously a number of bottlenecks that might diminish the gains of a multi threaded program.

Rustic scares me. I will 100% forget what tool I used to backup after 5 years and be unable to recover my files.

I use rsync + ZFS for backups which includes historical backups

Different tools for different use cases IMO.

But neither do backups.

I’m not super familiar with Syncthing, but judging by the name I’d say Syncthing is not at all meant for backups.

Syncthing is technically to synchronize data across different devices in real time (which I do with my phone), but I also use it to transfer data weekly via wi-fi to my old 2013 laptop with a 500GB HDD and Linux Mint (I only boot it to transfer data, and even then I pause the transfers to this device when its done transferring stuff) so I can have larger data backups that wouldn't fit in my phone, since LocalSend is unreliable for large amounts of data while Synchting can resume the transfer if anything goes wrong. On top of that Syncthing also works in Windows and Android out of the box.