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Arq is like Tarsnap/Attic/Borg in that it uses shift-resistant block deduplication - it can efficiently cope with small modifications to existing files, where r
by Freaky 10y ago
Arq is like Tarsnap/Attic/Borg in that it uses shift-resistant block deduplication - it can efficiently cope with small modifications to existing files, where rsync would have to clone the entire file for each new version.
- falcolas 10y agoIn the context of Time Machine, it does not use that form of deduplication, so rsync is capable of fulfilling the parent's requirements. In the larger scope of things, that level of deduplication has never been something I've found all that valuable; but of course most binary files I backup are images and music files; not ones which change frequently (if ever).