I’ve been using rsync to backup via a simple script I wrote. The compression, de-duplication and encryption are options I wish I had when I set this up. It would save a TON of space! However, if it creates one massive file it would not play nice with CrashPlan, as CrashPlan would be constantly trying to copy that whole file offsite. You see, I have a NAS which holds all my live data. I use rsync to create a copy of that NAS drive nightly to a large internal HDD backup drive. CrashPlan backs up the files on that large HDD offsite. If the compression/encryption worked on an individual file basis, then applied the de-dup before it writes that file to the backup drive, CrashPlan would be happy to copy only new/changed files offsite. Is this possible with BORG?
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