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by pdimitar 877 days ago
Technically Borg doesn't require it either, you can backup to a local directory and then use `rclone` to upload the repo wherever.

Not practical for huge backups but it works for me as I'm backing up my machines configuration and code directories only. ~60MB, and that includes a lot of code and some data (SQL, JSON et. al.)
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stavros 877 days ago
Sure, but rsync requires the server to support rsync.
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pdimitar 877 days ago
Does rclone require rsync? Haven't checked.
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stavros 877 days ago
Oh sorry, brain fart, I thought you said rsync. I think rclone uploads everything if you don't have rclone on the server, but I'm not sure.
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pdimitar 877 days ago
Pretty sure rclone uploads just fine without server dependencies, yeah. I never installed anything special on my home NAS and it happily accepts uploads with rclone.
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stavros 877 days ago
It will upload fine, but it can't upload only the changed parts of the file without server support.
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pdimitar 877 days ago
That I can't really speak of. I know it does not reupload the same files at least (uses timestamps) but never really checked about only uploading file diffs.

Do you have a direct link I can look at?

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formerly_proven 877 days ago
For the "replicating borg repos" use case this doesn't matter, because files are only written once and never modified afterwards.
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