I backup my files via rsync then have some essentially docker containers backed up and running in case the first one goes down :)

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      15 hours ago

      You do realize that it actually does a lot more than that right which is what makes it a proper backup system, right? If all it did was sync a copy of data then it wouldn’t be a proper backup. As I already pointed out, so let me know if I need to slow it down further for you.

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      3 days ago

      In such a way that it checks the integrity of the files. Which a normal copy paste does not do. Rsync does this as well bdw.

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        1 day ago

        I think you have a misunderstanding. Restic and Borg checks the integrity of the backup repository and not the files being backed up.

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        3 days ago

        None of those programs verifies integrity. Borg deduplicates, and optionally encrypts data. Restic is a front end for rsync, which only offers incremental back up. Meaning, restic/rsync compares your source and destination directories, and if the data are identical it does nothing, but if there are any changes it will upload only that changed data. None of the apps care what the data are, you can backup gibberish and they will happily put it another place for you.