I came across https://github.com/restic/restic but I don’t really understand how it compares to rclone.
Can someone please explain me the differences?
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Restic is a dedicated backup program. Rclone is a more general purpose file copying tool.
Rclone copies files 1:1 on the storage provider, wheras restic copies them in smaller chunks.
Restic does deduplication which rclone doesn’t.
Rclone can be used as a backup program too (especially with --backup-dir and --suffix).
You can use them together also, restic to backup to a local disk or NAS, then rclone to back that up to cloud storage.
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That’s helpful, thanks!
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