Selfhosted

I need a breakdown like this for Rclone. I've got 1TB of OneDrive free and nothing to do with it.

I'd love to setup a home server and backup some stuff to it.

I still prefer tar for quick and dirty same box copies.

tar cf - * | (cd /target; tar xfp -)

Veeam for image/block based backups of Windows, Linux and VMs.
syncthing for syncing smaller files across devices.

Thank you very much.

slow

rsync is pretty fast, frankly. Once it's run once, if you have -a or -t passed, it'll synchronize mtimes. If the modification time and filesize matches, by default, rsync won't look at a file further, so subsequent runs will be pretty fast. You can't really beat that for speed unless you have some sort of monitoring system in place (like, filesystem-level support for identifying modifications).

It's not bad if you don't need historical backups. I kinda think I do, so I use https://github.com/rustic-rs/rustic becase rust

Restic (https://github.com/restic/restic) is probably a better choice if you're not a rust-freak like me.

I think the there are better alternatives for backup like kopia and restic. Even seafile. Want protection against ransomware, storage compression, encryption, versioning, sync upon write and block deduplication.

Surely restic or borg would be better for backups?

Rsync can send files and not delete stuff, but there's no versioning or retention settings.

I used to use rsnapshot, which is a thin wrapper around rsync to make it incremental, but moved to restic and never looked back. Much easier and encrypted by default.

If you're trying to back up Windows OS drives for some reason, robocopy works quite similarly to rsync.

Maybe I am missing something but how does it handle snapshots?

I use rsync all the time but only for moving data around effectively. But not for backups as it doesn't (AFAIK) hanld snapshots

rsync for backups? I guess it depends on what kind of backup

for redundant backups of my data and configs that I still have a live copy of, I use restic, it compresses extremely well

I have used rsync to permanently move something to another drive though

Rsync is great. I’ve been using it to back up my book library from my local Calibre collection to my NAS for years, it’s absurdly simple and convenient. Plus, -ruv lets me ignore unchanged files and backup recursively, and if I clean up locally and need that replicated, just need to add —delete.