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How to backup a 500gb server to my home computer?

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Mar 15, 2026729 views
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what is the best way to backup my server? it has 500gb of data - most of it never changes (photos, videos) so only needs to be downloaded once. At the moment i do big tar.gz's and download them manually. takes forever. i have heard about rsync - what is this like? i prefer to download it at the wee…

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RSync is ideally suited to this type of task. RSync http://rsync.samba.org/ Additionally, one of the beauties of RSync is that you can use it repeatedly over time to update your backup with only the changes -- both copies will be synchronized, but y…

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