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		theteapot 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018) Need to combine this with LVM or BTRFS or similar to be a true snapshot. Rsnapshot supports LVM snapshot pretty good.

fenazego 17 days ago [–]

Once you have btrfs you don't really need rsync anymore, its snapshot + send/receive functionality are all you need for convenient and efficient backups, using a tool like btrbk.

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