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echo: rberrypi
to: CHRIS GREEN
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2021-01-14 11:06:00
subject: Re: My darn NAS...

On 14/01/2021 08:56, Chris Green wrote:
> When you backup a 1TB drive do you actually copy the whole 1TB?  It's
> a huge waste of time and space and you can't keep so many backups.
> Use some form of incremental backup and also backup*selectively*.

depends on what you want. I rsync huge amounts of data. Disk space is
cheap. Recovering from data loss is not, Working out what is important
and what is not is even more expensive.





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