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by Joel_Mckay 5 days ago
If you deal with large numbers of files, the ability to dynamically skip compressing media and zipped files for transfer can be extremely handy.

While stuff like sshfs is great for a few small files (and win11), it will be an order of magnitude slower than an rsync task.

Most smart folks automate backup/recovery scripts, and only sometimes edit them with a new OS install. =3