[Info-vax] Problems restoring image-backup

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 2:46:21 AM UTC+12, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> rsync remotely synchronizes the specified directories.   If that's what 
> you need for your backups, bully for you.   But rsync not a backup 
> tool, short of a very large pile of custom code, and a whole lot of 
> wasted storage on the target volumes if there's any depth of backups to 
> be kept.

I already explained how rsync is very much a backup tool, and provides dedupe options for this very purpose, to avoid wasting storage.